Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced that in Personal Health, comparable sales growth was 6%, with the Adjusted EBITA margin improving by 130 basis points. Diagnosis & Treatment showed 5% comparable growth, and the Adjusted EBITA margin improved by 80 basis points. Connected Care & Health Informatics grew 9%, while the Adjusted EBITA margin improved by 310 basis points. 
The Europe Connectathon has been hosted by Bochum this year and Visbion have had a successful week in Germany. The team have spent a busy and productive week, alongside over 300 attendees from more than 100 other companies, testing their compliance to international standards such as DICOM 3.0, HL7, XDS and many more. 
Driven by explosive growth in medical imaging and other data, healthcare providers are eager to explore the advantages offered by moving image data storage and management to the cloud. 
Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to implement the ORBIS ICU-Manager solution for its Adult Critical Care units. Implementation will start immediately, in a phased approach. 
Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, now features the Medelinked Symptom Checker integrated as part of the Medelinked mobile health app for Android and iOS. Agfa HealthCare announces today that the Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis (RKZ) hospital in Beverwijk, the Netherlands, has switched from IMPAX to Enterprise Imaging for Radiology. This solution offers a single, completely unified imaging platform providing image management, reporting, advanced image processing and integration of clinical information. 
iMDsoft announced that St. Franziskus Stiftung in Germany will be implementing MetaVision in the ICUs, IMCs and ORs of four hospitals, in an additional 132 beds. The foundation, located in Münster, is responsible for eleven acute medicine and three specialist hospitals, as well as five institutions for the handicapped and the elderly.