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.

The Liverpool Community Health National Health Service (NHS) Trust launched the ‘More independent’ project in late August 2013, piloted across four regions in the UK with the aim to support people with long-term health conditions.

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

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.

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.

A network of NHS trusts has developed a free app to help soldiers who suffer from mental illnesses. The app, called ‘Joining Forces’, provides tailored information on 11 mental health problems such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety.

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

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