Following a successful pilot, social enterprise and National Health Service (NHS) healthcare provider Bristol Community Health Community Interest Company (CIC) has recently gone live with the TotalMobile™ App Platform across three of their community healthcare teams and their citywide phlebotomy service.

A project of social media-based doctor’s consultation, started last year by an Italian ophthalmologist in Milan, has recently completed its second phase. The project makes it possible for patients to submit questions and receive answers from 17 different medical specialists from the San Camillo Hospital in Milan.

On 22 August 2013 it was announced that Accident and Emergency (A & E) and control room staff are able to use the Acute Care Portal to see at a glance to which hospital a patient can be placed.

On 23 August 2013 it was announced that during the 7th Framework Programme (FP7), the eHealth Unit of the European Commission spent more than €434 million, funding a total of 99 research projects. Researchers from the UK received the most resources.

As of 1 September 2013, the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health (Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde - SPMS, in Portuguese) makes available the new version of the electronic register of Certificates of Temporary Incapacity (Certificados de Incapacidade Temporária – CIT, in Portuguese).

As of 1 September 2013, the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health (Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde - SPMS, in Portuguese) makes available the new version of the electronic register of Certificates of Temporary Incapacity (Certificados de Incapacidade Temporária – CIT, in Portuguese).

EU-backed researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Germany recently developed a software that enables commercially available smartwatches to be used in sleep research.

The European FP7 project ‘Personal Health Systems (PHS) Foresight’ has recently launched a new phase in this process inviting stakeholders to assess visions on personal health systems futures with multiple criteria including novelty, feasibility and relevance in order to identify most valuable visions and provide improved understanding of the PHS community preferences and future

The latest version of Vigi'Fall, a device that sends out a distress signal in case its wearer has fallen in hospital or home environment will be launched for use in individual households in October 2013.

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the University Hospital del Henares in the Autonomous Community of Madrid has been awarded the MIHealth Innovation Award 2013 under the category ‘Organisation’ for its project ‘ICU without borders’ (UCI sin paredes, in Spanish). 

On 4 July 2013 Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda Hospital presented the project 'Connect-12', consisting of a network system able to share information on patients under dialysis in a safe and bidirectional manner.

Since 19 June 2013 Swiss citizens have been able to use the European patients Smart Open Services (epSOS) project Patient Summary service for personalised health treatment and medication when going to another epSOS piloting country.

The Danish Government, supported by the Local Governments Association (KL) and the Danish Regions has recently created a new public plan for the digitisation of health care for 2013-2017. The strategy aims to create better cross-sector relationships and safe treatment based on the individual's resources and needs.

The Swiss Federal Council has recently approved and submitted to Parliament a bill foreseeing the creation of electronic patient records containing the medical data of persons residing in Switzerland in order to make it available to healthcare professionals.

The Spanish Secretary General for Health, Pilar Farjas, presented in a dedicated press conference in the beginning of June 2013, an app that allows users to carry their organ donor’s card in their mobile phone.