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

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.

NHS Somerset (in South-West England) is planning to monitor the symptoms of 4 000 people living with long-term conditions over the next three years (2012-2015), using a mobile healthcare system.

The University Hospital Virgen del Rocío of Sevilla is participating in PROCUR@, a research project on telerehabilitation for post-stroke patients. The study is financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and it is supported by the European Regional Development Fund.

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.

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.

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.

The Professional Association of Children’s and Young People’s Physicians aims to develop a Bavaria-wide telemedicine system that will enable pediatricians to connect online with experts, such as rheumatologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, neurologists, hematologists and immunologists.

In Finland, the 'Telestroke Network' offers assistance to hospitals that have to treat stroke patients but cannot provide a neurologist at night and on weekend.

According to a new study from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (IPTS), Denmark, England and Scotland have been pioneers in the use of electronic communication in and across the health and social care sectors, as they have been able to integrate telehealth into standard patient treatments.

On 24 April 2012, the Health Minister of Thuringia, Heike Taubert launched at the Jena University Hospital (Universitätsklinikum Jena - UKJ, in German) the ‘Stroke telemedicine network in Thuringia’ (in short, SATELITE).

In April 2012, the French Ministry of Health updated the thematic section of its website dedicated to telemedicine, with the p

The Regional Health Agency (ARS) for the Indian Ocean, whose jurisdiction includes the French overseas territories of La Réunion and Mayotte, has recently announced that

The University Hospital Virgen Macarena of Seville and the Superior Engineering School of Seville University are jointly carrying out a new research project for the implementation of a complete telecare system for kidney patients.

A pioneering telemedicine project for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has recently been launched in a hospital in central France to assess the impact of readmissions due to COPD exacerbations.