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.

The Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has recently developed an app to run virtual glaucoma clinics.

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

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.

On 2 May 2012, the Regional Administration of Algarve interconnected the primary healthcare centres and the public hospitals of the region through the 'Doctor Support System' (Sistema de Apoio ao Médico - SAM, in Portuguese). 

Patients of the Healthcare Institutes of Regina Elena (IRE) and San Gallicano (ISG) in Rome can now check their lab tests results online, from the comfort of their home.

The Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and High Specialisation Therapies (ISMETT, in Italian) has recently launched a tele-health monitoring project for 30 Sicilian liver transplant patients during the post-transplant follow-up period.