The European Medicines Agency has recently upgraded its EudraGMP database with information on good distribution practice (GDP) in addition to good manufacturing practice (GMP).

Experts from across Northern Ireland gathered during the second week of April 2013 to mark the success of the Telemonitoring NI service.

The General University Hospital Gregorio Marañón in Madrid has recently set up Europe's first dispensing machine for medications.

The Italian Association for People with Rheumatic Diseases (A.P.MA.R.) has recently announced the successful launch in Italy of an advanced mobile application software (app) for people with rheumatoid arthritis, called the Rheumatoid Arthritis App.

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.

A new site has been recently launched as part of the European FP7 ‘Personal Health Systems (PHS) Foresight’ project with the objective to provide a forum for long-term coordination and strategic guidance across different PHS areas of application.

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.

On 28 February 2013, the Estonian Health Insurance Fund (Eesti Haigekassa, in Estonian) and the Estonian E-Health Foundation (Eesti E-tervise Sihtasutus, in Estonian) signed a memorandum of cooperation for the development of eServices and data standards in the health sector.

The seventh edition of the eHealth Week will take place on 13-15 May at the Convention Centre in Dublin under the title ‘Innovative Healthcare & Well-being’. It will present the views and ideas of the world’s health IT experts and showcase cutting-edge health ICT.

The European Commission's Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) and the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) have agreed on a roadmap to strengthen transatlantic cooperation in eHealth and health information technologies (IT), it was announced on

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.

Since its launch in October 2008, the online information database embryotox.de that provides information related to the risks of using medicines during pregnancy and breastfeeding, reached over a million visits.

NHS Somerset (in South-West England) is planning to monitor the symptoms of 4 000 people living with long-term conditions over the next three years (2012-2015), using a mobile healthcare system.

Czech doctors, laboratories, hospitals and pharmacies are increasingly using the IZIP system of electronic health records (EZK, in Czech). At the end of April 2012, there were almost 200 million records stored on the system. 

Patient List, a software application, made available as open source, making it easier for doctors to hand over patients, won the NHS Hack Day 2012 which took place in London on 26 and 27 May 2012.