HMA, The University of Sheffield and Tunstall Healthcare Collaborate to Develop New mHealth Assist Mobile Platform
Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of technology enabled care services, is collaborating with The Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH) at the University of Sheffield, and HMA Digital Marketing to develop 'mHealth Assist', an innovative mobile technology platform.
iMDsoft® is committed to providing clinical information systems that ensure the best possible intensive care. MetaVision® for critical care is built to deliver results in areas of the hospital with the highest cost, morbidity, mortality and revenue. With iMDsoft's sophisticated software, hospitals can quickly create significant value by cutting costs, capturing revenue, enforcing high-impact protocols at the point of care and improving clinical outcomes.
Adverse currency effects had a strong impact on Agfa HealthCare's top line in 2013. Excluding these effects, revenue decline would be limited to 1.1 percent. In the IT segment, both Imaging IT and Enterprise IT performed well. The business group's revenue decline is attributable to the Imaging segment's traditional X-ray film business. It should be mentioned that in 2012, the traditional business was marked by a strong recovery following slow sales in 2011.
Using the motto "Answers for Life," Siemens Healthcare is launching a package of new developments for imaging and IT at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria. Chief among these are improved diagnostic accuracy, faster examinations and a high level of flexibility.
Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced that the company is the number 3 patent applicant in the world for patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). With a total number of 1839 patent applications filed at the EPO in 2013, Philips has shown a strong growth of 59% compared to 2012, when it held the 12th position in the EPO's yearly patent applicant ranking.