Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has completed the cancellation of 21,361,016 of its shares. The cancelled shares were acquired from November 1, 2014, up to and including November 20, 2015, as part of Philips' EUR 1.5 billion share repurchase program that started on October 21, 2013, and is executed over a three year period.

Novo Nordisk and IBM (NYSE: IBM) Watson Health today announced that the two companies will work together to create diabetes solutions built on the Watson Health Cloud. The agreement combines Novo Nordisk's deep understanding of diabetes with IBM's leadership in cognitive computing.

Orion Health, the global technology company at the forefront of the revolution in healthcare, is firing up its offering by launching Amadeus, a platform that will enable highly personalised healthcare and the implementation of Precision Medicine.

NHS organisations should reconsider their financial processes, including the benefits of eInvoicing, following the Government’s recent comprehensive spending review. This is the advice from leading business applications and services provider, Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced).

Pioneering clinical informatics specialist and retired surgeon Ian Linehan has joined the board of digital patient medical records supplier IMMJ Systems as non-executive director. IMMJ Systems develops scalable, intelligent information solutions for healthcare that deliver real value.

Simon Arnold, Chief Customer Officer for Tunstall Healthcare presented a cheque for £25,000 to The Silver Line, a national charity that helps reduce loneliness in isolated, older people.

Apple (AAPL) recently announced it is working with a select group of business software and solution providers, including Physitrack (Bloomberg: 1297006D LN). Now the digital therapeutics company has launched a powerful new Physitrack iOS app for healthcare practitioners, and a new patient app, released under the separately trademarked brand name PhysiApp.