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.

RaySearch has established a German subsidiary, RaySearch Germany GmbH. The new subsidiary is fully responsible for the marketing, sales and service of RaySearch’s proprietary treatment planning system RayStation® in Germany, Austria and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland. It will serve new as well as existing customers such as DKFZ and WPE in Germany and MedAustron in Austria.

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that Denmark has decided to provide access to Elsevier's ClinicalKey to more than 19,000 healthcare professionals across the country. The Danish Regions and Denmark's Electronic Research Library (DEFF) chose to provide ClinicalKey, Elsevier's innovative online search tool, to make electronic medical information available to healthcare professionals in a cohesive, simple way.

The Personal Connected Health Alliance, an international non-profit organization established by Continua Health Alliance, mHealth Summit and HIMSS to represent the consumer voice in personal connected health, formally launched. PCHA will build upon the global reach, leadership and resources of its founding organizations, to ensure that personal connected health technologies, such as smartphones, mobile apps, sensors and personal health tracking devices, are user-friendly, secure and can easily collect, display and relay personal health data.