FairWarning®, Inc., a leading provider of solutions which expand trust in mission critical applications such as Salesforce, Electronic Health Records and cloud-based applications, has announced that Scotland is the first country to have an operational nation-wide privacy breach detection system to ensure that all of its patients' protected health information (PHI) remains private.

Agfa HealthCare announces today, that it has acquired the TIP Group, which is based in Graz, Austria. This merger of two healthcare pioneers will broaden Agfa HealthCare's portfolio with specialized Business Intelligence and ERP solutions for hospitals.

HealthGO Mini is a healthcare device directly installed at patients' homes, transmitting vital signs (i.e. blood pressure, weight, oxygen saturation) to medical information systems through the secure eDevice mobile network. HealthGO Mini communicates with medical sensors via Bluetooth or USB.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected an open source electronic patient record (EPR) called openMAXIMS from healthcare software provider IMS MAXIMS, to improve the recording and sharing of patient data across its hospital and community sites.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) will showcase how consumer health and professional healthcare are coming together in the Philips HealthSuite digital platform, the company's cloud-based innovation platform, to help consumers and their healthcare providers obtain a complete picture of their health as well as take the right steps to remain healthy at every stage of life.

The Scottish government's decision to invest £116 million in digital public services will enable the country’s elderly and vulnerable to benefit from the latest in ‘smart’ and technology-enabled care services, one of the country's leading providers has said.

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., and Novartis are expanding their global connected therapy management collaboration. Novartis will leverage Qualcomm Life's connectivity solutions to power its next-generation connected Breezhaler™, the inhaler for its Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) portfolio.