Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced that in the fourth quarter, the Personal Health businesses grew by 7% on a comparable basis, with growth across the portfolio, led by double-digit growth in Health & Wellness and high-single-digit growth in Domestic Appliances; the Adjusted EBITA margin improved by 100 basis points. The Diagnosis & Treatment businesses posted comparable sales growth of 3%, 
Siemens Healthineers has expanded its online learning platform PEPconnect (Personalized Education Plan) by about 1,000 new learning modules for medical imaging. Effective immediately, physicians and medical technology assistants can use PEPconnect to access training courses on Siemens Healthineers systems for imaging and minimally invasive therapy in seven different languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Korean and Japanese). 
Scan4Safety demonstrator site on target to reduce waste and increase efficiency by achieving transaction information milestone with support of NHS Shared Business Services and Global Health Exchange (GHX). Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has achieved a major financial transaction milestone as part of the NHS drive to use GS1 standards to allow every NHS hospital in England to save an average of £3 million annually through improved patient safety, greater regulatory compliance and widespread operational efficiencies. 
BASF Human Nutrition and Nuritas™ have announced a collaboration that will see the commercialization and discovery of health-benefiting bioactive peptide networks within specific target areas of significant value. Peptides are biologically occurring short chains of amino acids that act as potent signaling molecules in the body. The peptide networks of focus in this collaboration are natural, food-derived, patented and of significant benefit to the health of consumers. Siemens Healthineers and Biogen announced today that the companies plan to jointly develop magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications with the intent of quantifying key markers of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease activity and progression. Biogen is a leading biotechnology company with a deep focus on neurological and autoimmune conditions, which for two decades has been at the forefront of delivering therapies to MS patients. 
iMDsoft®, a leader in clinical information systems, announced that they have been awarded a position on the NHS London Procurement Partnership Clinical and Digital Information Systems (CDIS) framework for Lot 1 - Electronic Patient Record Systems. iMDsoft's clinical EPR solution, MetaVision, offers hospital-wide electronic patient records and includes support for clinical workflow management and decision support, 
CHU de Charleroi, is a large, multi-site public hospital organisation based in Belgium's fifth biggest city. It has 1,424 beds and almost 5,000 members of staff, working in most medical and surgical disciplines. In line with its aim to provide high quality care and a superior experience to all patients, CHU de Charleroi is working with Carestream Health to ensure patient information, including multimedia clinical objects, can be shared securely and reliably across its sites and with authorised external parties.