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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.

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.

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."

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).

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.

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).

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.