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.

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.

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.

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.

Telemedicine project ‘My Heart’ is to become operational in the town of Bad Oyenhausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, aiming to provide homecare to patients with a left-sided heart failure. All relevant data will be transmitted through a telephone line to the doctors.

In April 2012, the Federal Ministry of Health launched a research project, whose aim is to develop and evaluate an Internet-based mental health programme for people with mild to moderate depression symptoms.

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. 

Twelve of Swedens's 21 counties as well as two municipalities are now connected to Nitha, the national information system supporting event analysis of actual and

The first Greek website targeting patients with asthma, 'myasthma.gr', was officially launched on 7 April 2012.

An electronic incident reporting and complaints handling system has dramatically reduced the number of complaints relating to medical errors in AZ Sint-Lucas hospital in Bruges.

Three hospitals in Turin (the emergency ward of the University Hospital San Giovanni Battista 'Molinette', the Maria Adelaide Centre for Orthopedic Trauma and the Regina Margherita - Sant'Anna Paediatric hospital), have been sharing and exchanging their patients' X-rays online in real time.

Approximately 2 000 patients across five patient groups will participate in the largest-ever telemedicine project in Denmark, it was announced on 14 December 2011. The project is an initial step towards establishing a common national infrastructure for telemedicine in the country.

The Ministry of Health has received BGN 9.7 million (approx. € 5 million) for the project 'National Health Information System' under the Operational Programme 'Human Resources Development'