In an increasingly challenging and competitive environment, this analysis investigates how well leading European healthcare firms meet the growing expectations of stakeholders in terms of transparency and dialogue through digital channels. Who is taking the lead?

The European Online Games, Social Media and Mobile Application sector has grown substantially in recent years and children are exposed to increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques online which are often outside the purview of existing regulatory frameworks.

What have the best brains of Europe come up with to improve health and wellbeing with the help of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)? This report offers an overview of the most current (on-going or recently finished) European funded projects in the field of ICT for health and wellbeing ('eHealth').

Mobile health applications have a clear potential to bring significant benefits to individual citizens and to society as a whole. Citizens can benefit from continuous and readily accessible support in monitoring, evaluating and improving their health. Society as a whole not only benefits from having a healthier population,

Due to increasing cost pressure in the healthcare sector, established remuneration models for healthcare services are in transition around the world. Fees for performance and value-based systems are increasingly replacing fees for service. Major players - including Medicare and Medicaid in the U.S., the National Health Service in the U.K., the National Health Care Institute in the Netherlands, and

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today launched the results of the first edition of its Future Health Index (FHI), an extensive international study which explores how countries around the world are positioned to meet long-term global health challenges through integration and connected care technologies.

Future Internet CHallenge eHealth (FICHe) project has challenged European startups to develop innovative applications in the eHealth market building upon the FIWARE technology. Open call for startups was opened in September 2014, and 80 out of 300+ applicants were selected to enter FICHe.