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.
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Tunstall wins Hanover Housing Association Tender for Alarm Call and Door Entry Framework
Hanover Housing Association has entered into a new long term alarm call and door entry framework agreement with Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of telehealth and telecare solutions, to help deliver consistency across Hanover's UK property portfolio, ensuring sustainability, value for money and innovation.
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New Radiology Developments from Siemens
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.
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Tunstall Healthcare and Qualcomm Collaborate for Global Deployment of Innovative Connected Care Services
Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Tunstall Healthcare, one of the leading providers of technology enabled care services, announced its collaboration to facilitate the cost effective global deployment of Tunstall's care provisions leveraging Qualcomm Life's 2net™ Platform.
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Philips Leaps to Number 3 Global Position of Patent Applicants at the European Patent Office
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.
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UZ Leuven, Belgium, Selects Agfa HealthCare's Mobile Wireless DR Solution
Agfa HealthCare announces that the pediatric radiology department of University Hospitals Leuven (UZ Leuven) in Belgium has chosen to install a mobile DX-D 100 direct radiography (DR) solution with DX-D 35C digital wireless detector for its neonatal intensive care unit (ICU).
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Hospitals to Benefit from New Data Management Solution from BridgeHead
Healthcare data management specialist, BridgeHead Software has launched HealthStore™ for FlexPod®. A data management solution, HealthStore is designed to provide hospitals with a comprehensive, end-to-end solution to manage all of the clinical and administrative data across the hospital enterprise - from critical applications such as Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems through to Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS).
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