The General University Hospital Gregorio Marañón in Madrid has recently set up Europe's first dispensing machine for medications.

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.

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.

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.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics Europe announced on 7 May 2012 that the Marina Salud Hospital in Dénia, province of Alicante (east coast of Spain) has achieved ‘Stage 7’ of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) for paperless, digital workflows.

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 Lithuanian Ministry of Health has recently signed a contract for the implementation of a national medical picture archiving and information exchange system called MedVAIS (Nacionalinės medicininių vaizdų archyvavimo ir mainų informacinės sistemos, in Lituanian).

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.

The Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in order to collaborate on a project that aims to introduce HIMSS Analytics ‘Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model’ (EMRAM)SM to the UK.<

The pain unit at the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella, Andalusia, has implemented an IT application supporting the comprehensive treatment of hospitalised patients with acute pain. The initiative is the first of its kind in Spain.

The steering committee of Digital Hospital Programme, whose goal is to modernise hospital information systems in France, gave the go ahead to three major projects on 2 April 2012.

Twelve of Swedens's 21 counties as well as two municipalities are now connected to Nitha, the national information system supporting event analysis of actual and

The citizens of Bologna (city and province) have recently been able to activate their electronic health records (EHRs) and thus manage their health data easily via the Internet.

While the electronic processing of social and health care information in Finland is progressing constantly, considerable efforts are still needed nation-wide. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health will conduct a comprehensive assessment of electronic information management in this field with the involvement of international experts.