IBM (NYSE: IBM) is working with Diabetizer, a German-based healthcare technology company, to leverage IBM's open platform-as-a-service, Bluemix to build and deploy a first-of-its-kind, cloud-based application that improves care for diabetes patients around the world. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has reported Q4 sales of EUR 6.5 billion and operational results of EUR 743 million. Healthcare comparable sales were 3% lower. The EBITA margin, excluding restructuring and acquisition-related charges and other items, was 14.8%, down from 19.0% year-on-year. 
Carestream scientist Dr Samuel Richard will present a scientific paper documenting the impact of advanced imaging technologies on lung nodule conspicuity at the 2015 European Congress of Radiology (ECR). 
HP announced that Egton Medical Information Systems (EMIS) has selected HP Converged Systems to save time and costs while supporting its move to a hybrid cloud IT infrastructure. An HP ConvergedSystem 700x will enable EMIS to rapidly and cost-effectively improve its internal systems by delivering 15 service upgrades across the business in one go instead of having to carry out projects one at a time. 
The eHealth Competition is an initiative that rewards the best eHealth / mHealth solutions produced by SMEs (European Small and Medium Enterprises). Its objective is to support business success of SMEs by giving them visibility together with marketing opportunities to attract customers, partners and external capital. The Philips Foundation has formed global innovation partnerships with UNICEF and the Red Cross (led by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Netherlands Red Cross). Collaboration will be based on new types of co-creation models that enable the partners to identify opportunities for innovation based on shared value, while benefiting from a global reach of over 190 countries. 
Agfa HealthCare announces that the Flemish government agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT) will provide funding for the joint Agfa HealthCare / Inside Matters research project "VisiCloud: Advanced visualization and image processing in the cloud".