As of 28 October 2013, a pilot operation of the epSOS project enables ePrescriptions from other European countries to be picked up at epSOS-approved pharmacies in Sweden, and for Swedish ePrescriptions to be collected at epSOS-approved pharmacies in other countries.

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.

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.

On 22 September 2013, the German Technicians Health Insurance Fund (Techniker Krankenkasse - TK, in German) stopped the production of paper cards. These will be replaced by the smart chip technology cards which will start being distributed to the 8.5 million insured persons on 30 September 2013.

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.

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in eastern England has gone live with ePrescribing on two wards at its Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, it was announced on 9 September 2013.

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

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 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.

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 20 March 2013 the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of North Rhine (KV Nordrhein) presented its pilot project to manage electronic hospital admissions and discharges.

On 22 February 2013, the EU eHealth project epSOS received the 2013 HealthTech Innovation Award for pioneering the adoption of auto ID technologies in healthcare.