Your.MD, the only personal health assistant that harnesses Artificial Intelligence (AI), is now available to users on global messenger platforms for the first time. The news comes as Your.MD reveals it has become the number one health app in over 40 countries since its launch in November 2015 (1) including India, the Philippines and Nigeria. 
Brainlab AG, a global leader in cancer-fighting medical technology, showed solidarity with the World Cancer Day campaign 'We Can. I Can.' by releasing a video in which employees share how they personally impact cancer. The three-year World Cancer Day campaign, outlines actions that people can take to prevent cancer, improve survival rates and reduce the impact cancer has on individuals, families and communities. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) today announced it is further enabling connected health by signing an agreement with Validic, a U.S.-based fast-growing company that pioneers a technology platform for connectivity and access to digital health data from clinical and remote-monitoring devices, sensors, fitness equipment, wearables and patient wellness applications. 
EMIS Health has become the first UK clinical systems provider to implement new open standards for interoperability in the NHS - enabling clinicians using its systems to securely share data with any other third party system across health and social care. 
Agfa HealthCare announces that it has signed a four-year framework contract to supply digital imaging solutions to Regionale Kliniken Holding (RKH) Ludwigsburg, in Germany. This group currently includes eight acute care facilities, an orthopedic clinic and a geriatric rehabilitation clinic, all providing healthcare services to the counties of Ludwigsburg, Enzkreis and Karlsruhe. 
Opinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra UK & Ireland.
The agreement from 2012 which saw Carestream appoint Tromp Medical as Business Partner to act as distributor of Carestream Digital X-ray Products, covering sales and service across the Netherlands, has now been extended to cover Belgium and Luxembourg.