Agfa-Gevaert today announced its third quarter results. Including currency effects, Group sales declined 6.0 percent to 741 million Euro. Excluding currency effects, the decline was limited to 1.7 percent. The effects of the deteriorating economic conditions became more visible, both in Agfa Graphics and Agfa HealthCare. 
MedXchange is operational since 2000 with its web-based product and has acquired a long and strong experience with its unique multilingual cross-border application of Integrated Electronic Health Record (IEHR). A very quick and reliable way of medical data exchange is offered 24h/7d by the real-time management innovative system with main focus on practical needs. 
Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced today that they are becoming the global leader in grant analysis and grant management tools in the sciences. 
Solutions offered by Philips can help to reduce the time from discovery of a heart attack to treatment to 90 minutes, the limit recommended by experts, by enabling hospitals to better organize resources throughout the treatment procedure, starting before patients enter their doors. 
T-Systems is supporting dialog in the healthcare sector and invited guests to an expert panel titled "Hospitals - A Bottomless Pit?". In the plenum, invited experts discussed solutions for optimizing resources and gave recommendations on how to handle future health sector reforms. Healthcare and Lighting maintained solid growth in much tougher markets, with sales up 5% and 6% respectively on a comparable basis. Commercial delivery of Philips' cutting-edge Brilliance iCT scanner continued, with recent installations in healthcare facilities in the US, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.