Startupbootcamp Digital Health Berlin, a business accelerator for early stage startups, announces a new partnership with Philips today. As a part of this partnership, for the coming three years, Philips will support the program in accelerating 30 high-potential startup in Digital Health.

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has started this week the application period for the next round of its Accelerator programs in Darmstadt, Germany, and Nairobi, Kenya. Globally, Merck is seeking young start-ups in the fields of healthcare, life science and performance materials with a focus on digital solutions.

UK healthcare technology company Patientrack has been recognised as providing one of the best eHealth solutions anywhere in Europe, in an EU competition focussed on healthcare innovations from small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

A Scottish clinical and translational informatics company has announced it is part of a consortium selected to deliver a digital research environment based on its AnalytiXagility informatics platform to one of the Netherland's most prestigious university medical centres, with the aim of facilitating biomedical research on an unprecedented scale.

The face-to-face meetings between the patient and the care provider might be successfully complemented with person-centered e-support. A preliminary evaluation of breast cancer patients shows that a newly developed app can assist women undergoing treatment for breast cancer in handling symptoms and side effects and provide support.

Patients and medical staff of the Arrixaca Hospital Onco-Hematological Day Hospital have valued very positively the implementation of UMANICK Identity for Health. This is confirmed by the results of the survey conducted by UMANICK during the project carried out in this hospital.

Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced that clinicians worldwide are quickly adopting the innovative new clinical podcast, "UpToDate Talk" as a convenient way to keep up with new developments in medical research.