Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in respiratory care, has signed an agreement with Aerogen Ltd, a privately owned respiratory drug delivery company headquartered in Galway, Ireland. The agreement includes a technology license and the acquisition of select assets solely related to Aerogen's home-care business. Read more...
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. has entered into a master collaboration agreement with Pfizer Inc. to design, develop and commercialize diagnostic tests for therapeutic products across Pfizer's pipeline. Under the agreement, Siemens will be one of Pfizer's collaboration partners to develop and provide in vitro diagnostic tests for use in clinical studies and, potentially, eventual global commercialization with Pfizer products. Read more...
Agfa HealthCare announces today the first two U.S. sales of IMPAX Agility, a brand new imaging platform that unifies the functionalities provided by traditionally disparate RIS, PACS, reporting, 3-D, connectivity and clinical applications. Montgomery General Hospital, Montgomery, West Virginia, and Open Systems Imaging, Palm Desert, California, selected IMPAX Agility to boost their business success by simplifying IT integration efforts and providing a cost-saving image management platform. Read more...
Agfa HealthCare has announced the U.S. launch of IMPAX Agility, a brand new imaging platform that unifies the functionalities provided by traditional disparate RIS, PACS, reporting, 3D, connectivity and clinical applications. IMPAX Agility is a unified imaging management platform that was designed from the ground up to automate task-based clinical productivity. Read more...
At the 99th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) illustrated its technology leadership in medical imaging with the introduction of two fundamentally new developments: its Vereos PET/CT fully digital positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging system, and its IQon Spectral CT(1) spectral detector-based computed tomography (CT) imaging system. Read more...
Carestream Health in France has been selected to provide shared PACS and RIS services and teleradiology support in the Midi-Pyrénées region. The tender process was supported by Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire (GCS) Télésanté Midi-Pyrénées and will allow all medical imaging produced in the region to be shared. Read more...
Healthcare is constantly changing. The best way to deal with this change is for all parties in the sector to join forces. Philips is putting this principle into action under the banner "Transforming healthcare, together", and at this year's MEDICA it will demonstrate solutions that have been developed together with users. Read more...
Asklepios Kliniken Verwaltungsgesellschaft (AKV), which represents more than 50% of the turnover of the Asklepios group, the largest private hospital group in Germany, has chosen Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS as the standard hospital information system (HIS) for 43 clinics. In addition, all 43 clinics will use ORBIS RIS as their radiology information system of choice. The implementation of the project will start in 2014. Read more...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is working with the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to create the world's largest and most comprehensive clinical dataset on cancer patients by building cancer registries in developing nations. The effort will begin in Sub-Saharan Africa, where less than 1% of the region's population is covered by a cancer registry. Read more...
Somatom Force - the new computer tomograph (CT) from Siemens - had its first public presentation worldwide at the University Medical Centre Mannheim, Germany. In its first few weeks of clinical use at Mannheim's Institute for Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, the third generation of Dual Source computed tomography (CT scanners each with two radiation tubes and detectors) enabled considerably quicker and more precise diagnoses at reduced doses. Read more...