Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased by 4.1 percent. This clear improvement compared to the previous quarters of the year is the result of the efforts to support the growth engines of the business group on the one hand and the evolution of the Euro exchange rate on the other hand. Continuing the success of the previous quarters, the Direct Radiography product range's revenue grew strongly. 
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue has partnered with Staffordshire County Council social services and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS to work with technology-enabled care services provider Tunstall Healthcare to provide a preventative health and safety provision using telecare. Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announced today that it has entered into a sales and marketing agreement with Hitachi Medical Systems America, Inc. (Hitachi) whereby Hitachi will promote Agfa HealthCare's complete portfolio of Direct Radiography (DR) and Computed Radiography (CR) solutions to its large and growing community of MRI and CT customers in the United States, including hospitals, imaging centers and orthopedic clinics. 
The Grants4Apps® Accelerator is a mentoring program for digital health startups taking place in Berlin. This year's batch with five startups runs from August 10th until December 4th, 2015. The program offers mentoring by entrepreneurs and Bayer experts, office space for 100 days at Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals headquarters, and funding of 50,000€. 
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced a contract with the Department of Health in England to manage and continue transforming the National Health Service Electronic Staff Record system (ESR), the UK's most important workforce management tool serving 1.4 million employees. 
Leading healthcare software provider, Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), has been named as an approved supplier on the NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) Healthcare Clinical Information Systems framework. The new framework, which has been divided into six lots, is valued at up to £1.25 billion.