From May 11 to 13 the FICHe project has joined the eHealth Week event in Riga. Together with the 40 startups and SMEs that are selected for the second phase of the FICHe accelerator program, the FICHe project team was showcasing the results of the first part of the project.

The eHealth Competition, that has the endorsement of the European Commission, is an initiative that rewards the best eHealth/mHealth solutions produced by SMEs across Europe. In this competition, there are two Categories depending on the turnover of the companies: Champions (SMEs with turnover more than 0.5 M€), and Promises (with less turnover).

Radboud UMC has become the third hospital in Europe to be given the Stage 7 EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) award by HIMSS Europe, while six further European institutions have received stage 6 validation.

Image Analysis Ltd., a privately-held digital health software and services provider of medical imaging analysis in clinical trials and daily clinical practice, has completed a $5.2m venture financing with Danish Research Foundation (DRF) and RBV Capital.

The HIMSS Europe Governing Council invites nominations for three vacancies on the HIMSS Governance Council for a three year term to begin on 1 July, 2015 and end 30 June, 2018.

Ascom, a leading supplier of Healthcare ICT solutions, has developed an enhanced interface connecting the Ascom Unite middleware platform with the Ascom teleCARE IP nurse call system. This enhanced interface delivers advanced messaging behavior, improved staff assignment options and increased visibility of all nurse call message alerts through a central display.

At the COCIR General Assembly in Brussels, COCIR President Kevin Haydon announced that he would stand down from COCIR Presidency at the end of April 2015. Joost Leeflang has been elected as the new COCIR President and will represent Philips on the COCIR Board.