Philips Teams Up with Visiopharm to Boost Breast Cancer Diagnosis Objectivity through Computational Pathology
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has signed a licensing agreement with Visiopharm to offer their breast cancer panel software algorithms [1] with Philips IntelliSite [2] digital pathology solution to help pathologists with an objective diagnosis of breast cancer.
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Healthcare Professionals Can Now Communicate and Collaborate Using Medelinked Health Network
Medelinked, the global online and mobile health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, today announced it has enhanced the potential for collaboration between doctors and other healthcare professionals.
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Startupbootcamp Digital Health Berlin
Startupbootcamp Digital Health Berlin is a dedicated accelerator for innovative startups that combine medical knowledge with smart technologies, with special focus on behavior change, diagnostics and genomics, big data and analytics. The program provides mentorship, funding, logistic support and access to our huge network of industry specific mentors, corporate partners, angels and VC's to up to 10 high potential Digital Health startups from around the world.
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Six European Governments Request Support for Interoperable Telehealth in Joint Letter to the eHealth Network
Health ministries and their agencies responsible for ICT systems from Austria, Catalonia, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden today delivered a joint letter to the eHealth Network endorsing large scale deployment of telehealth systems, outlining challenges to implementation, and requesting support to address telehealth challenges related to enabling technology and interoperability.
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Agfa HealthCare Collaborates with IBM and Watson to Advance Cognitive Imaging
Agfa HealthCare has joined the Watson Health medical imaging collaborative, a global initiative comprised of fifteen leading health systems, academic medical centers, ambulatory radiology providers and imaging technology companies. The collaborative aims to bring cognitive imaging into daily practice to help doctors address breast, lung, and other cancers; diabetes; eye health; brain disease; and heart disease and related conditions, such as stroke.
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The Andalusian Public Health System's New Regional Enterprise Imaging Platform has so far Saved a Million and a Half Euros
Carestream recently held a meeting attended by representatives of the public health system of Andalusia, medical specialists and representatives of several autonomous Spanish communities. At the meeting, they shared the results of the new regional digital medical imaging system, the implementation of which was completed at the end of 2015, after 15 months of work.
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Philips Expands its Digital Pathology Solutions Portfolio with the Acquisition of PathXL
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has acquired PathXL, a Northern Ireland-based leader in digital pathology image analysis, workflow software and educational tools. PathXL's image analysis and tissue pathology software will complement Philips' Digital Pathology Solutions offering, and help expand the business' leadership in this fast-growing field.
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