Opinion Article: 'Pilotitis' and Bureaucracy are Stunting Healthcare Advances
The mHealth market has never been in better shape with a flurry of start-ups and established players developing hardware and solutions that will change the face of modern day medicine. The drivers of change include better managing the increasing burden of ageing populations, the need for improved healthcare in remote and developed geographies and the opportunities that technology brings for diagnostics, preventative medicine and patient monitoring.
IMS MAXIMS has been named as one of 11 open source suppliers in a 'catalogue' designed to support NHS England’s technology fund two, officially called the Integrated Digital Care Fund, which opened for applications last week. 
iMDsoft® announced that Uppsala County Council in Sweden chose MetaVision® as the Clinical Information System (CIS) for their high acuity environment county-wide. The project will encompass a total of 235 beds. The system will be implemented in Uppsala University Hospital and Enköping Hospital, in units spanning general, thoracic, neonatal and neuro ICUs, ORs and post anesthesia care units. 
Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Tunstall Healthcare, one of the leading providers of technology-enabled care services, announced its collaboration to facilitate the cost effective global deployment of Tunstall's care provisions leveraging Qualcomm Life's 2net™ Platform. 
Sekoia, an open software platform for applications in the welfare area, will be presented to the public at conhIT 2014. In very short time Sekoia has turned a market out of supporting nursing homes and similar institutions from Denmark with a flexible assisted living platform. The main approach was to simplify and ease the daily life of workers and inhabitants in all types of care homes from the country.