Agfa HealthCare announces today that its top-of-the-line, ceiling-suspended direct radiography (DR) solutions will support the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, UK, to optimize patient care and enhance informed care decisions, through the excellent image quality and the potential to reduce patient imaging radiation dose. 
Chiltern CCG and Aylesbury Vale CCG are working with one of the UK's largest commissioning support units to pioneer the use of a new simple and easy-to-use tool that delivers a seamless, end-to-end process for the delivery of personal health budgets. The clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are using PHBChoices, the new online marketplace that connects health and care suppliers with Personal Health Budget (PHB) holders. 
Orion Health has been awarded the 2016 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership, recognising the company's pioneering approach to population health management (PHM), supporting its vision for delivering precision medicine. Global research and consulting organisation Frost & Sullivan conducted a recent analysis of the PHM solutions market and praised Orion Health for the "unmatched reliability and quality" of its technology, compared to other electronic health record (EHR) vendors. 
Sandoz, the Novartis generic and biosimilar pharmaceutical division, announces the launch of Sandoz HACk - Healthcare Access Challenge - a global competition to generate innovative ideas and solutions to help tackle some of the world's most pressing healthcare access problems. The competition is open for entries until November 30, 2016. 
Accenture has announced the creation of the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge which brings together leading-edge startups with prominent life sciences and health companies to tackle some of the world's greatest health challenges including access, affordability and transparency. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) and Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., have announced a strategic technology collaboration to advance connected health across the health continuum - from healthy living and prevention to chronic care management and home care.