Philips and Masimo Sign Multi-Year Business Partnership Agreement in Patient Monitoring and Select Therapy Solutions
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) and Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced a wide-ranging, multi-year business partnership involving both companies' innovations in patient monitoring and therapy solutions. The partnership includes joint marketing and sales programs in North America and certain markets in Asia and Europe for Masimo's non-invasive sensor technologies, such as its rainbow® and SET® platforms, in conjunction with Philips' patient monitoring and select therapy solutions. 
Technology used by retail giants ranging from Tesco to Argos could now save the NHS millions of pounds, as a result of a new partnership between NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) and British technology company Virtualstock. NHS SBS, a Department of Health joint venture with Sopra Steria, has already saved the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds since it was set up in 2005. 
With reference to the recent media speculation, Agfa-Gevaert NV ("Agfa") announces that it has been approached by CompuGroup Medical SE ("CompuGroup") who has indicated an interest in a potential acquisition of all of the issued shares of Agfa by way of a voluntary conditional public takeover offer. 
iMDsoft®, a leader in clinical information systems, is proud to be working with two of the NHS's global digital exemplars, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) and West Suffolk Hospital.