The largest healthcare organisation in the country, Barts Health NHS Trust has recently been awarded a prestigious technology and transformation award, EHealth Insider's 'Digital NHS Trust of the Year' for excellence in IT innovation and e-health.

Cerner established a partnership with the Health Social Innovators programme to help healthcare start-ups develop their products and solutions into viable businesses. Health Social Innovators, a partnership between Healthbox, Numbers4Good, UCL Business, Trafford Housing Trust, Janssen Healthcare Innovation and established with support from the Cabinet Office under the Social Incubator Fund, launched its first accelerator programme for healthcare ventures with a social impact last week.

Using the Triabetes® smartphone app and TriabetesClinic online decision support service in Type 2 diabetes treatment helps reduce long-term blood glucose levels. This is the main finding reported by Professor Kerstin Brismar from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

Ascom Wireless Solutions, a global provider of mission-critical communication systems, has announced the launch of its ground-breaking mobile device, the Ascom Myco. It combines the capabilities of a smartphone with a set of features specifically designed for the healthcare environment, and especially for nurse communications and efficient management of clinical workflows.

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.