The mHealth App Developer Economics 2015, which has been conducted for the fifth time this year is the largest global study on mHealth app publishing. It focuses on the current status of the mHealth app market and provides an outlook of market trends over the next five years.

The European Commission, Deloitte, LEWIS PR and the European Young Innovators Forum have rewarded the winners of the 2015 Web Entrepreneur of The Year Awards. Europioneers is part of Startup Europe initiative and celebrates the success of web initiatives in the European Union for the third consecutive year.

Games for Health Finland, which promotes innovative solutions in the health and wellness sector, was chosen as the national winner in the 9th European Enterprise Promotion Awards. The awards were presented at the SME Assembly held in Luxembourg from 18 to 20 November 2015.

Ten years ago, on November 19th 2005, Transinsight's team had a vision: to bring artificial intelligence to the biomedical domain. To contribute to better health for billions would make a big difference for the world, was their motivation. The team started as true entrepreneurs and dove into the field of semantics and ontologies.

Galway Clinic is undergoing an ambitious project to become the first hospital in Ireland to enable patients access to their Electronic Health Record (EHR) by November 2016. To achieve this, the clinic has installed MEDITECH's latest EHR platform, MEDITECH 6.1, and is using BridgeHead Software's RAPid™ Data Protection suite to ensure that the MEDITECH system, as well as the rest of the hospital's data, is fully protected and recoverable in the event of a system outage, data corruption, loss, or major disaster.

Many pharmaceutical companies run beyond-the-pill programmes which support patients toward successful treatments. The goal: improving outcomes by improving adherence. Specially-trained nurses call patients and inform them about their treatment and the specifics of their medication.

Canterbury and West Coast District Health Boards (DHBs) in New Zealand are set to implement a new digital patient observation and alert response system, aimed at helping clinicians identify deteriorating patients earlier. The Patientrack system will be introduced from November and is designed to make patient observations immediately visible to clinical teams anywhere through hospital information systems.