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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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Detecting Software Errors via Genetic Algorithms

According to a current study from the University of Cambridge, software developers are spending about the half of their time on detecting errors and resolving them. Projected onto the global software industry, according to the study, this would amount to a bill of about 312 billion US dollars every year. "Of course, automated testing is cheaper", explains Andreas Zeller, professor of Software Engineering at Saarland University, as you could run a program a thousand times without incurring any charges. "But where do these necessary test cases come from?" asks Zeller. "Generating them automatically is tough, but thinking of them yourself is even tougher."

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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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New Therapy Helps to Improve Audio and Visual Perception in Stroke Patients

A stroke can cause permanent damage to important parts of the brain, with the result that many stroke survivors require lifelong care and support. "It is not uncommon for stroke patients to suffer from an awareness deficit or a reduced response to stimuli on one side of their body. This condition, known as hemispatial neglect, can mean that patients are unable to properly perceive people, images or sounds on that side," explains Professor Georg Kerkhoff from the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology at Saarland University.

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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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Agfa HealthCare Launches DX-D Mobile Retrofit at ECR 2014

Agfa HealthCare announces that it is launching the new DX-D Mobile Retrofit at ECR 2014. With this economical mobile direct radiography (DR) upgrade solution, facilities can get the most out of their existing X-ray investments by making the transition from analog film or computed radiography (CR) imaging to DR, allowing them to experience the benefits of cassette-less image capture and improved workflow and productivity.

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Philips Honored with 47 Prestigious Awards at the 2014 iF Design Awards

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) has been recognized with an impressive total of 47 awards in the 2014 "iF design awards' product category". During the award ceremony that took place on February 28 in Munich, Germany, the highest level Gold Award winners were announced and Philips scooped an unprecedented 4 Gold winners from across the broad scope of Philips innovations:

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New Blood Analysis Predicts Risk of Death

The general state of a person's metabolism can be diversely illustrated with a new scientific blood analysis. With the aid of the analysis biomarkers predicting short-term mortality have now been discovered. If a person belongs to a risk group based on these biomarker concentrations, he/she has a multifold risk of dying in the next five years compared to the general population. The study is based on blood samples of over 17,000 Finnish and Estonian people.

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What 5G can Do for You

By 2020 there will be more than 30 times as much mobile internet traffic as there was in 2010. But this will not be the same type of traffic as now - Internet usage will not only have grown thanks to the number of smartphones & tablets in use, but also because of the massive growth in machines and sensors using the Internet to communicate, and which require more efficient and ubiquitous technology to carry the data traffic.

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