At the end of March 2012, the eHealth Suisse steering committee drew up an interim assessment concerning the implementation of the 'Swiss eHealth Strate

At a recent informal meeting in Horsens, Denmark, the Ministers of Health of the EU member states discussed the themes of healthcare innovation, health risk management and patient empowerment, among others. 

In April 2012, the French Ministry of Health updated the thematic section of its website dedicated to telemedicine, with the p

According to a survey of the European Commission published on 26 April 2012, the Czech Republic has become the world leader in the transition to next generation Internet protocol.

Politicians and City Council members of the city of Bern formed, on 26 April 2012, a group for Digital Sustainability that advocates the city's IT Department independence from of IT vendors and the introduction of solutions of long term sustainability.

Several organisations in favour of open standards, free and open source software believe that the Government of the United Kingdom should quickly start implementing its open standards policy. They insist that the Government must leverage truly open innovative technologies to achieve long term savings.

Following a related ministerial decision in December 2011, the Hungarian public administration, as of April 2012, was to use open document standards for all electronic documents; all public organisations were also encouraged to move to open source office tools.

All Portuguese public administrations must consider using open source for their office suites, email, web sites, document management and IT system management. Increasing this type of software is part of a major IT overhaul that was made public on 21 March 2012.

As reported by its Vice-Mayor Petr Chramosta during an Open Source Software Usage by European Public Administration (OSEPA) workshop on 26 March 2012, the Czech municipality of Grygov uses open source almost in all its activities.

According to figures provided in a Council Bulletin on 19 March 2012 by the Mayor of Munich, Christian Ude, switching to a vendor independent desktop based on open source reduces costs and results in fewer calls to help desks.

The Regional Health Agency (ARS) for the Indian Ocean, whose jurisdiction includes the French overseas territories of La Réunion and Mayotte, has recently announced that

The European Commission is inviting all interested persons to join in the online engagement platform of the Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) to discuss in the online groups, contribute to the Digital Agenda Asse

The steering committee of Digital Hospital Programme, whose goal is to modernise hospital information systems in France, gave the go ahead to three major projects on 2 April 2012.

The Agency for Administrative Modernisation published a statistical analysis report on trainings provided to municipal staff on the Services Directive, the Zero Authorisation initiative, as well as the Entrepreneur's Desk.

On 20 April 2012 the Government announced a proposal for a revised health registry act (helseregisterloven, in Norwegian) that will provide the legal grounds for the set-up of the 'core electronic patient records'.