After the release of the first version of the ENGAGE platform in 2012, the ENGAGE consortium has recently released ENGAGE v2.0 with new and improved features and architecture.

According to an announcement made in late April 2013 on the website of the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations, the latest release of the European Commission’s Internal Market Information System (IMI) has been launched.

The European Medicines Agency has recently upgraded its EudraGMP database with information on good distribution practice (GDP) in addition to good manufacturing practice (GMP).

The European Commission invites metadata experts who directly or indirectly work for a governmental data portal to participate in a working group that will define a common model for exchanging information about data sets between data portals in Europe.

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.

The seventh edition of the eHealth Week will take place on 13-15 May at the Convention Centre in Dublin under the title ‘Innovative Healthcare & Well-being’. It will present the views and ideas of the world’s health IT experts and showcase cutting-edge health ICT.

The European Commission's Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) and the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) have agreed on a roadmap to strengthen transatlantic cooperation in eHealth and health information technologies (IT), it was announced on

In order to simplify the consumer protection procedures, the State Consumer Rights Protection Authority (Valstybinė vartotojų teisių apsaugos tarnyba – VVTAT, in Lithuanian) launched a project whose aim is to build an online consumer rights protection system.

On 16 February 2013, the Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Ivaylo Moskovski stated that in less than a year a project has created the basis of several eGovernment services.

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.

Since January 2013, more than 1 200 specifications have been made accessible and searchable through the Joinup Portal at http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/catalogue/all; this is a new online service launched by the European Commission to facilitate the search and re-use of specification

On 11 February 2013, the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect) launched a survey addressed to all its stakeholders and other interested parties, in order to further analyse the evidence on which it bases its Priority Actions for 2013 and beyond.