Severely impacted by adverse currency effects, Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased by 7.7 percent. On a currency comparable basis, the decrease is limited to 2.5 percent, completely attributable to the decline of the Imaging segment's traditional X-ray film business. In last year's third quarter, the traditional film business' revenue was exceptionally strong.

A new electronic patient record (EPR) system is providing staff at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with faster access to the very latest patient information across reception areas, wards and clinics. The new system, Medway EPR, supplied by System C, a McKesson Company, went live on Saturday 2 November 2013. It replaces an old patient administration system which had been in place for nearly 30 years.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and AMREF (African Medical and Research Foundation) Flying Doctors, the largest health organization in Africa, will work closely together in an innovative shared-value partnership model designed to bring about a structural improvement in the health care infrastructure and provision on the African continent.

Carestream's latest version of Image Suite Software offers a flexible image acquisition, processing and storage platform that now supports CARESTREAM wireless DR as well as CR imaging systems, and an optional mini-PACS. Image Suite offers Web-based patient scheduling, image review and reporting, and flexible archiving solutions.

IMS MAXIMS, a provider of clinical information systems, has been awarded a place on the UK government's G-Cloud 4 framework, allowing healthcare organisations to purchase specialist cloud based digital services from the company.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has extended its implementation of Nervecentre to deliver the benefits of mobile working, workflow and governance across Blackpool Victoria Hospital. The extension includes: hospital-wide management of the Acute Response Team (out-of-hours working); hospital-wide Mobile Handover; management of patient referrals to 90+ specialties.

Wayne Parslow, Mike Smith and Helen Parslow have been appointed to the leadership team of MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management and business intelligence solutions. They will be responsible for continuing to extend the success of the company in the evolving analytics market across UK healthcare including within Clinical Commissioning Groups, Commissioning Support Units, acute and social care, while expanding the company's footprint across existing and emerging markets in EMEA.