The analytics unit of HIMSS Europe awarded nine European hospitals with a Stage 6 Award during an awards ceremony at the annual CIO Summit, taking place in Rome from 6 - 7 October.

GPs are set to be offered new software that creates third party reports and automatically redacts non-permitted information from patient records before they are sent, electronically, to third parties. Provided at no cost to GP practices across the UK and Northern Ireland, Intelligent GP Reporting - iGPR, developed by Niche Health and Inchware,

Elsevier, the world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, has launched an enhanced version of its flagship clinical resource, ClinicalKey, following extensive research on the search behaviours of clinicians.

Digital health experts Health Fabric are backing the drive for digital transformation in the NHS with extensive support for the 2014/15 NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes and the winners of the digital patient and clinician engagement category. This category challenges NHS organisations to show how they can use information, communications or diagnostic technologies to connect patients and clinicians as partners in their care.

VirtualRehab® is the first virtual reality platform to receive CE mark approval as a medical device manufacturer from the European Commission and the only certified motion capture physical rehabilitation software using Microsoft Kinect® and Leap Motion™ VR technology approved by the EU to develop both hardware and software for medical purposes.

The Future Internet CHallenge eHealth (FICHe) accelerator has launched an open call for applications. All European eHealth small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) and startups eager to develop innovative applications in the eHealth domain using FIWARE technology are welcome to apply. They can win up to €217,000 per team, over €500,000 worth of partner services, coaching, PR and other support.

The European Commission has published a list of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that will be first to benefit from its new €3 billion SME Instrument. 155 SMEs from 21 countries will each receive €50,000 to finance feasibility studies for their projects. After that, their projects may be considered for further financial support from the Commission worth up to €2.5 million.