By Matt Hunt of Apadmi and Dr. Farid Khan of eLucid mHealth.
The mHealth market has never been in better shape with a flurry of start-ups and established players developing hardware and solutions that will change the face of modern day medicine. The drivers of change include better managing the increasing burden of ageing populations, the need for improved healthcare in remote and developed geographies and the opportunities that technology brings for diagnostics, preventative medicine and patient monitoring.

IMS MAXIMS has been named as one of 11 open source suppliers in a 'catalogue' designed to support NHS England’s technology fund two, officially called the Integrated Digital Care Fund, which opened for applications last week.

Times are changing: the era of fragmented healthcare is nearing its end. Awareness has been growing in many health systems as a result of the major challenges which lie ahead - growing pressure on healthcare resources due to demographic change; increasing quality requirements, and tightening of budgets - can only be met by restructuring the whole approach to the provision of healthcare.

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (HEY) have agreed a five year deal with Nervecentre to deliver their e-Observations Decision Support System trust-wide. The solution, the deployment of which has been speeded up through an award from the £100m Nursing Technology Fund, will enable the trust to reduce mortality, improve patient safety and reduce harm.

iMDsoft® announced that Uppsala County Council in Sweden chose MetaVision® as the Clinical Information System (CIS) for their high acuity environment county-wide. The project will encompass a total of 235 beds. The system will be implemented in Uppsala University Hospital and Enköping Hospital, in units spanning general, thoracic, neonatal and neuro ICUs, ORs and post anesthesia care units.

Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Tunstall Healthcare, one of the leading providers of technology-enabled care services, announced its collaboration to facilitate the cost effective global deployment of Tunstall's care provisions leveraging Qualcomm Life's 2net™ Platform.

Sekoia, an open software platform for applications in the welfare area, will be presented to the public at conhIT 2014. In very short time Sekoia has turned a market out of supporting nursing homes and similar institutions from Denmark with a flexible assisted living platform. The main approach was to simplify and ease the daily life of workers and inhabitants in all types of care homes from the country.