European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes has awarded prizes to eHealth SMEs from Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom as part of eHealth Week 2013 in Dublin, Ireland.

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.

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.

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 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.

An online NHS Mobile Working Knowledge Centre has been launched to help the NHS make better use of mobile technology.

Nearly 70 % of general practitioner (GP)practices across Wales can send hospital referrals electronically via the Welsh Clinical Communications Gateway (WCCG), a national system for the electronic exchange of clinical information that integrates primary and secondary care systems.

On 27 January 2012, Dr James Reilly TD (*), Ireland's Minister for Health launched the country's first national electronic general practitioner (GP) referral system. It has capacity to have over 42 000 referrals into breast, lung and prostate cancer clinics carried out electronically annually.

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'.

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.

eRemiss, a nation-wide project intended to establish the basis for the unified electronic management of referrals between healthcare providers, has now entered an intermediate phase which will run from November 2011 until January 2012.

Following intensive preliminary work, the statutory health insurance companies in Germany started from 1 October 2011 to provide their insured persons with the new electronic health cards.

Following the launch of a pilot referral model on 1 October 2011, an online database of health institutions of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia enables doctors to check the health services offered in the establishments listed and to refer their patients to relevant specialists and hospitals.

The José Germain Psychiatric Institute was the first psychiatric hospital in the Autonomous Community of Madrid to implement an online platform for the management of the health records of their patients.

The Lithuanian Health Minister Mr. Raimondas Šukys has issued an order on the architecture model of functional eHealth systems and related hardware and software.