Ascom has acquired the Italian software company UMS (United Medical Software), which provides integrations for medical devices and supplies digital medical records software solutions for life-critical patient care. With the acquisition of UMS, Ascom will gain access to new software and competence for global integrated workflow solutions in Healthcare ICT.

The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today the launch of UpToDate® Anywhere in Italy. UpToDate Anywhere enables hospitals and healthcare organizations to provide clinicians with mobile and EHR-based access to UpToDate, the acclaimed evidence-based clinical decision support resource.

NHS organisations should reconsider their financial processes, including the benefits of eInvoicing, following the Government’s recent comprehensive spending review. This is the advice from leading business applications and services provider, Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced).

Pioneering clinical informatics specialist and retired surgeon Ian Linehan has joined the board of digital patient medical records supplier IMMJ Systems as non-executive director. IMMJ Systems develops scalable, intelligent information solutions for healthcare that deliver real value.

Apple (AAPL) recently announced it is working with a select group of business software and solution providers, including Physitrack (Bloomberg: 1297006D LN). Now the digital therapeutics company has launched a powerful new Physitrack iOS app for healthcare practitioners, and a new patient app, released under the separately trademarked brand name PhysiApp.

A new head of analytics at the UK arm of MedeAnalytics, a pioneer in health analytics, is to help healthcare planners and frontline staff understand which patients, across their entire local population, are at risk of specific adverse events and what interventions will work for individual patients as a means of prevention.

Medelinked has been appointed a Samsung S Health partner and the Medelinked App is now available for Galaxy and other Android devices in Google Play via S Health.