Royal Philips (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) launches a personal App for iPad 2 that measures your heart rate and breathing rate remotely, simply by using the iPad 2 camera. This breakthrough technology allows people to measure heart and breathing rates in an easy and unobtrusive way at home*.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences announced that voting for the 2011 IN Cell Analyzer Image Competition is now open. Both scientists and the wider public are invited to choose their favourite from 30 shortlisted images submitted by researchers worldwide.

InterSystems announced that Mater Private Hospital has implemented InterSystems Ensemble® in its key hospital departments to help reduce its IT costs. Its plan is to use integration to assist with the consolidation of patient records,

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust recouped its investment in patient kiosks from iSOFT, a CSC company, in under four months, after the system helped it meet a smoking cessation referral target and so secure an extra £120,000 in funding from South East Coast Strategic Health Authority.

Riversmead Housing Association has invested in a grouped housing communications system from leading provider of telehealthcare solutions, Tunstall, to help support its new flexicare housing scheme, at Bircherley Court in Hertford.

Excluding currency effects, Agfa HealthCare's third quarter revenue decreased 4.6 percent. In the Imaging segment, the growth for Computed Radiography (CR) and Direct Radiography (DR) was counterbalanced by the decline for traditional X-ray film products.

Tieto's hospital information system iMedOne now offers the Manchester Triage System as an integral part of the solution. The Manchester Triage System is a tool for categorizing the priority of patients who need critical emergency treatment. The Tieto solution offers doctors and nurses faster access to all critical patient data and provides standardized procedures for the initial assessment of patients in need of urgent care.