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.

The Liverpool Community Health National Health Service (NHS) Trust launched the ‘More independent’ project in late August 2013, piloted across four regions in the UK with the aim to support people with long-term health conditions.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced on 17 May 2013 a new £260 million (approx. €305 million) fund for hospitals to increase the use of technology.