Agfa HealthCare announces today that The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, in South Yorkshire, UK, has implemented the DX-D 100 direct radiography (DR) solution, with FreeView technology, in its Emergency Department. The hospital has also implemented a new DR 600 fully automated DR X-ray room. With the introduction of its innovative, convergence approach to Enterprise Imaging, Agfa HealthCare is dedicated to improving the delivery of care by empowering physicians to make informed decisions, while simultaneously supporting strategic initiatives for population health management, value-based care, and risk sharing. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has signed a new agreement with the Stockholm County Council on patient monitoring systems and software for the Karolinska University Hospital, which comprises the New Karolinska Solna University Hospital and the Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge. Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) today announced the introduction of a secure data recovery service, built in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), that rapidly captures and backs up an entire healthcare organization's data repository in the cloud. 
Merck, a leading science and technology company, announces the start of its equity-free accelerator program for digital health startups. Just as the big bang shaped the universe, Merck Accelerator is looking for startups with the potential to reshape entire industries and make people's lives richer. Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) today announced a collaboration with Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd (TSE: 6501), to deliver a highly scalable, high-performance Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) solution.