Already a world leader in radiology information systems (RIS) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) for medical images generated, for example, in radiology and cardiology departments, Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) has now designed sophisticated digital pathology solutions to ease the workload and support decision making in central and hospital-based pathology departments. 
Conscia Enterprise Systems Ltd, one of Scotland's top web-based solutions companies, announced it is to join forces with English healthcare solutions specialist System C Healthcare PLC. The move coincides with a significant recruitment drive and expansion within Conscias city-centre headquarters in Glasgows St Vincent Street. 
An innovative scheme to use mobile technology to obtain a patient's current smoking status and invite 'quitters' for Smoking Cessation services, has proved a great success in NHS Hammersmith and Fulham. NHS Hammersmith and Fulham have a smoking prevalence of 24.2% and are committed to cutting that number down every year. 
A team of radiographers from City University London recently examined a 2,500 year old Egyptian mummy named Tahemaa. A SOMATOM® Emotion CT scanner from Siemens Healthcare was used to learn more about how Tahemaa died without damaging the corpse. 
The City of Bolzano, Italy and TIS Innovation Park have entered into a strategic initiative with IBM (NYSE: IBM), with the aim of creating a smart city. Bolzano, capital of South Tyrol in northern Italy, is the fifth Italian city to choose IBM to identify and design a new model for a sustainable city through a range of digital solutions. During the next few months a pilot project will be implemented for remote health monitoring of the elderly. 
Carestream Molecular Imaging, a division of Carestream Health, Inc., announced worldwide availability of a new Bone Density Software application that performs bone density analysis of small animals in vivo and measures mineral density of specimens in vitro.