The second eHealth Roadshow, promoted by the new EU-funded eHealth Hub project, will take place on the 6th of April in Stuttgart, Germany, in the frame of the Medtec Europe Stuttgart 2017, which brings together leading medical technology buyers, suppliers, distributors, R&D experts, engineers and marketing & sales professionals. 
Accenture announced plans to grow and deepen its presence in Ireland, drawing further upon the country's globally-recognized diversity of talent and business leadership. Specifically, Accenture will hire more than 300 technology and design professionals in Ireland this year. This includes 100 new roles at The Dock, the company's multi-disciplinary research and incubation hub, which was officially opened. 
The solution, installation of which begins in March 2017, includes 96 Ascom Myco built-for-Healthcare handsets, interface software to wirelessly communicate alerts and data from 128 medical monitors to staff handsets, a comprehensive Ascom TeleCare IP nurse call system featuring 1,700 devices, and a full suite of Ascom Unite software. 
The SAP IoT Startup Accelerator is a structured co-innovation program for selected B2B startups focusing on the Internet of Things. The Accelerator helps startups grow and scale their businesses alongside SAP, its partners, and its customers, with all parties benefitting from each other as well as from SAP's knowledge of the ecosystem. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a leader in HealthTech, and Diagnostics Development, a P&M Venge company spin-off from Uppsala University (Sweden), have demonstrated a proof-of-concept for the rapid and reliable detection of bacterial infection. The test is based on Philips' Minicare I-20 handheld diagnostics platform and detects the human neutrophil lipocalin (HNL) biomarker in a single 'finger-prick' drop of blood. 
Carestream has signed its first full Clinical Collaboration Platform (CCP) contract with the Ikazia Hospital in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This milestone agreement is for a period of five years, and is in addition to the PACS Cloud contract already in place with the hospital. Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) has won Sleep Therapy Manufacturer and Sleep Diagnostic Manufacturer of the Year at the Association for Respiratory Technology and Physiology (ARTP) Awards 2017. This is the first time for a company to win both awards. Philips is proud to have won the Sleep Therapy Manufacturer of the Year award previously in 2013, 2014 and 2015.