Carestream Health's Successful R&D Efforts Earn 43 U.S. Patents During 2016; 52 Additional Patents in Other Countries
Carestream Health was awarded 43 new patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last year for innovation in radiography, cone beam CT imaging, healthcare IT, dental imaging and other areas. The company also received 52 additional patents in European and Asian countries last year.
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Horder Healthcare Uses IMS MAXIMS Electronic Patient Record to Enable its Digital Transformation
Healthcare provider Horder Healthcare is to deploy an electronic patient record (EPR) from software provider IMS MAXIMS, in order to improve care for thousands of patients and facilitate its digital journey to align it with the NHS's ambition of paperless at the point of care by 2020.
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Scopis Expands to North America and Initiates Collaboration with the German Accelerator Life Sciences
Scopis, a tech company specializing in surgical navigation and medical augmented reality, has announced its collaboration with the German Accelerator Life Sciences (GALS) program, an initiative supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). Scopis has also established a presence in Cambridge, MA to support its activities in the U.S. & Canada.
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Philips' Fourth Quarter Results 2016 - HealthTech
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced that in the fourth quarter, the Personal Health businesses grew by 7% on a comparable basis, with growth across the portfolio, led by double-digit growth in Health & Wellness and high-single-digit growth in Domestic Appliances; the Adjusted EBITA margin improved by 100 basis points. The Diagnosis & Treatment businesses posted comparable sales growth of 3%,
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Siemens Healthineers has expanded its online learning platform PEPconnect (Personalized Education Plan) by about 1,000 new learning modules for medical imaging. Effective immediately, physicians and medical technology assistants can use PEPconnect to access training courses on Siemens Healthineers systems for imaging and minimally invasive therapy in seven different languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Korean and Japanese).
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Plymouth Lays Foundation for NHS Savings with GS1 Milestone
Scan4Safety demonstrator site on target to reduce waste and increase efficiency by achieving transaction information milestone with support of NHS Shared Business Services and Global Health Exchange (GHX). Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has achieved a major financial transaction milestone as part of the NHS drive to use GS1 standards to allow every NHS hospital in England to save an average of £3 million annually through improved patient safety, greater regulatory compliance and widespread operational efficiencies.
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BASF and Nuritas™ to Work Together on Delivering Next Generation Peptide Ingredients Through Artificial Intelligence
BASF Human Nutrition and Nuritas™ have announced a collaboration that will see the commercialization and discovery of health-benefiting bioactive peptide networks within specific target areas of significant value. Peptides are biologically occurring short chains of amino acids that act as potent signaling molecules in the body. The peptide networks of focus in this collaboration are natural, food-derived, patented and of significant benefit to the health of consumers.
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