Agfa HealthCare and Hitachi Medical Systems America Enter a Strategic Sales and Marketing Alliance for the US Market
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announced today that it has entered into a sales and marketing agreement with Hitachi Medical Systems America, Inc. (Hitachi) whereby Hitachi will promote Agfa HealthCare's complete portfolio of Direct Radiography (DR) and Computed Radiography (CR) solutions to its large and growing community of MRI and CT customers in the United States, including hospitals, imaging centers and orthopedic clinics. 
The Grants4Apps® Accelerator is a mentoring program for digital health startups taking place in Berlin. This year's batch with five startups runs from August 10th until December 4th, 2015. The program offers mentoring by entrepreneurs and Bayer experts, office space for 100 days at Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals headquarters, and funding of 50,000€. 
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced a contract with the Department of Health in England to manage and continue transforming the National Health Service Electronic Staff Record system (ESR), the UK's most important workforce management tool serving 1.4 million employees. 
Leading healthcare software provider, Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), has been named as an approved supplier on the NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) Healthcare Clinical Information Systems framework. The new framework, which has been divided into six lots, is valued at up to £1.25 billion. 
EMIS, the UK leader in clinical IT systems for GPs and commissioners, is to enable direct data sharing with all other GP systems - supporting new ways of working in the NHS. Following an arrangement with TPP to enable direct interoperability between their clinical systems - free of charge - EMIS is preparing to sign an agreement with INPS and Microtest to offer similar functionality. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced the appointment of Mr. Robert Cascella to lead Philips' multi-billion euro cluster of Imaging businesses. These businesses capitalize on the rapidly transforming global healthcare industry, in particular in the areas of integrated diagnostic imaging and image-guided minimally invasive therapy solutions. 
Carestream is partnering with leading orthopaedic and sports medicine specialists to develop a new three-dimensional medical imaging system (investigational - not available for commercial sale) for capturing images of patient extremities (knees, legs, feet, arms and hands).