Aridhia, the Edinburgh based clinical informatics company, announced that their AnalytiXagility data platform has been chosen to underpin a three year research programme that was awarded Innovate UK funding via the Neurodegenerative Diseases: Business Models and Big Data competition, following a joint bid by three of Northern Ireland’s leading organisations. 
Agfa HealthCare announces the successful launch of its Enterprise Imaging for Radiology solution, with multiple hospitals in Belgium going live and more to follow. The platform simplifies the creation of a single comprehensive patient imaging record, empowering physicians to make informed decisions through multi-specialty collaboration, helping improve delivery of patient care and streamlining costs. 
With more than 200,000 connected medical devices currently in the field and a strong position as pioneer and worldwide leader of the connected healthcare market, eDevice was the key representative of the Telehealth industry participating in this first oneM2M Interoperability Test. The result of the tests demonstrated interoperability between eDevice's HealthGO Mini medical hub for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and oneM2M servers from various companies, including Cisco Systems (CSCO), Huawei Technologies, LG, Qualcomm (QCOM), HP & Fraunhofer, amongst others. Agfa HealthCare will focus on "Integrated Clinical and Visual Care" at EHI Live, being held from 3-4 November 2015 in Birmingham, UK. Building on its 100+ years of experience, Agfa HealthCare continues to develop innovations with designs that keep the user and customer in mind. At EHI Live, Agfa HealthCare will show how this focus has resulted in concrete achievements, integrating XERO across both Agfa and non-Agfa platforms, 
A smartphone pilot study has highlighted a potential solution for white coat syndrome - the medical phenomenon responsible for sending some patients’ blood pressure soaring in the GP surgery. Patient Angela Howard was able to prove that her surgery blood pressure test results were uncharacteristically high and not an accurate reflection of her actual health in a month-long trial of the Personal Health Record (PHR) within EMIS Health's Patient Access app. 
Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, is now available free to medical practitioners and healthcare professionals. The Medelinked Health Partner Portal enables them to create health accounts for their patients and clients and safely and securely upload health records directly through the Portal to an individual patient or client's online Medelinked account. 
Opinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra UK & Ireland.