Student nurses in Manchester have become the first anywhere in the world to be trained in how to use a vital signs observations technology called Patientrack, before they set foot onto the ward. The pioneering move at The University of Manchester, signals the start of a changing educational focus to equip the UK's first generation of 'paperless' nurses

The Grants4Apps (G4A) Accelerator developed by Bayer invites health IT and technology startups to apply for the program's 2016 edition. This year, Bayer looks primarily into projects aimed at fostering patient-doctor feedback in the Women's Health field as well as those improving patient engagement in Cardiology, Oncology, Radiology and Ophthalmology, but Bayer is also interested in highly innovative software, hardware, technologies applied to digital health fields.

IMS MAXIMS has been awarded a place on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) new Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DOS) Framework. The DOS Framework is one of three complementary frameworks that all public sector organisations, including agencies and arm's length bodies, can use to procure cloud-based services,

The Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (HUCA) presented their success story on healthcare information system integration at the Cerner Collaboration Forum in London. This event is a meeting point where professionals from internationally renowned hospitals come together every year.

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced the participants for its Accelerator Programs in Darmstadt and Nairobi. Almost 200 highly competitive applications from 47 countries were submitted for consideration.

The Europe Connectathon has been hosted by Bochum this year and Visbion have had a successful week in Germany. The team have spent a busy and productive week, alongside over 300 attendees from more than 100 other companies, testing their compliance to international standards such as DICOM 3.0, HL7, XDS and many more.

Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, now features the Medelinked Symptom Checker integrated as part of the Medelinked mobile health app for Android and iOS.