The Austrian Medical Association (Österreichische Ärztekammer - ÖÄK, in German) has sent a letter to the authorities to help with the resolution of outstanding issues surrounding the implementation of ELGA (Elektronische Gesundheitsakte), Austria's electronic health records project, it was announced on 1 February 2012.

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.

The Swiss Confederation and cantons agreed to postpone the creation of a Public Health portal for the time being.

It has now been made possible for doctors in the Czech Republic to register their patients in the IZIP system of electronic health records (EHRs), it was announced on 31 January 2012.

COCIR, the non-profit association representing the European Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry, published on 13 January 2012 the results of a survey conducted among European acute care hospitals on the availab

On 2 January 2012, the newly created National SNOMED CT Terminology Management Centre at the Lithuanian Medical Library officially started its activities.

A recently released audit report by the National Audit Office of Finland covering the period 2003-2009 reveals that IT projects in the field of social services and healthcare did not achieve satisfying performance results.

An extraordinary general meeting of the HealthNet Economic Interest Group was held on 13 December 2011 that marks the end of the legal formation of Luxembourg's 'eHealth Agency'.

On 22 December 2011, the European Commission adopted a decision establishing an eHealth Network, marking the first time that EU legislation includes provisions on eHealth with clear
objectives to find modern, innovative solutions for providing better and safer healthcare for all Europeans.

Under the Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development (FP7) the European Commission has granted €3.7 million for the next three years (2012-2014) to a consortium of 9 partners who got together to develop COMMODI

The Directorate General of Care Provision (Direction Générale de l'Offre de Soins - DGOS, in French) of the French Ministry of Health officially launched the Digi

Since 15 November 2011, the use of the centralised eArchiving system for electronic patient records (eArkisto, in Finnish) is being tested in Kuopio, one of Finland's main cities.

On 26 October 2011, HIMSS Analytics Europe announced that the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) became the first medical establishment in Europe to achieve the highest possible hospital digitisation rating.