Opinion Article: The City of the Future is a Healthier Place to Live
By Elena Bonfiglioli, Senior Director, Health Industry, EMEA.With the majority of our world's population residing in cities, now more than ever we need to find smarter, more sustainable ways to help urban citizens live healthier. The time has come to "mainstream health and social services" in our cities and leverage the interplay between health and other important areas such as education, urban planning, transportation, environmental stewardship, tourism, e-government services, safety and defense.
Anoto, a leader in digital writing technology, has announced that National Wound Healing Centres (WHC), a clinic specialising in wound care, is now using Anoto digital pens and TELERwoundcare measurements from Anoto partner, Longhand Data to report patient progress digitally back to its head quarters. 
BridgeHead Software has announced its Data Protection Suite for InterSystems Caché® databases, a backup and recovery solution that fully integrates with Caché to provide rapid and reliable management of hospital data. InterSystems Caché ® is an advanced object database at the heart of many hospital applications, including Electronic Medical Records (EMR) applications from Allscripts, Epic Systems, GE Healthcare, McKesson, Siemens, as well as InterSystems themselves. 
Agfa HealthCare has successfully implemented its latest IMPAX picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and radiology information system (RIS) at Isala Clinics in the Netherlands. Following a visit to Agfa HealthCare's demo site in Liege, Isala recognized that the solution would answer its needs for greater stability, very fast speed and excellent speech recognition. 
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced that healthcare currency-comparable equipment order intake increased by 7% year-on-year, with both Imaging Systems and Patient Care & Clinical Informatics showing growth. Comparable sales were flat year-on-year as the growth at Customer Services, Patient Care & Clinical Informatics and Home Healthcare Solutions was offset by a decline at Imaging Systems due to soft order intake in the previous quarters.