Devicare, a company specializing in innovative medical devices for chronic home care patients under Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), has closed out a seed round of 3 million euros. This funding will be used to consolidate the launch of clinical studies of two of Devicare's main product lines on the Spanish market: 
Clinical technology specialist IMS MAXIMS will be launching its fully integrated vital signs application at eHealth Week on 3rd and 4th May in Olympia, London. Delegates will be the first to use the app, designed to improve patient outcomes by enabling staff to respond to a patient's condition from anywhere in the hospital before it becomes life-threatening. 
Patients in need of attention for everything from chest pains to seizures on wards at night, are receiving better and faster co-ordinated responses from nurses and doctors, now that Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a system called Patientrack. The trust is the first in the country to use the technology solely to help manage the hospital at night. 
Pfizer Inc. has announced the launch of the company's Antimicrobial Testing Leadership and Surveillance (ATLAS) website, which is designed to provide physicians and the global health community with easy access to critical data on the efficacy of various antibiotic treatments and emerging resistance patterns across more than 60 countries. 
Holistic medical services at the "point of care" - anytime and anywhere! That is what the Cologne-based start-up m.Doc is promising to deliver, via software that enables the transfer of data from medical devices, wearables and classic apps to the m.Doc digital health platform. As of now, that also includes data from the Vscan Extend mobile ultrasound device made by GE Healthcare under a partnership arrangement.