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.

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland has recently announced the launching of an electronic data management strategy with the aim to define the social and health care electronic data management national strategy until 2020.

In September 2013, following the release of statistical data, Social Affairs and eHealth Minister, Taavi Rõivase said that the greater use of eHealth systems facilitates the exchange of information between doctors, improves patient care and promotes patient involvement in healthcare.

The President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Ignacio Gonzalez, announced at the end of September 2013, that the ePrescribing system (eReceta) is available in 324 pharmacies, 44 health centres and 149 clinics throughout the region, while electronic prescriptions will be implemented in all pharmacies in the second half of 2014.

A quarter of general practitioners (GPs) in England are now actively using Patient Access, a web-based system, it was announced on 5 September 2013. This system is used to give patients access to their records and transactional services such as online booking.

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.

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).

Danish Regions and the Danish eHealth portal 'Sundhed.dk' recently launched an emergency care and a healthcare information app respectively, offering Danes the opportunity to freely download information on healthcare easily and quickly.

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).

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

As of 22 July 2013 e-RCP, a Lorraine software tool supporting the organisation of Multidisciplinary Coordination Meetings (Réunions de Concertation Pluridisciplinaires – RCP, in French), has allowed patients to send the full RCP dossier to their treating doctor electronically and securely at the end of each meet

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.

The National Cancer Registry of Luxembourg was officially launched on 15 May 2013, following a relevant decision of the Luxembourgish Minister of Health Mars Di Bartolomeo back in July 2011.

European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes has awarded prizes to eHealth SMEs from Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom as part of eHealth Week 2013 in Dublin, Ireland.

On 21 February 2013, UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, launched an online platform, ‘UNAIDS Science now’, which highlights scientific papers published on HIV, especially those papers that are particularly relevant to the United Nations high level targets.