OpenTele, a home healthcare monitoring project that is being successfully piloted in Denmark, is available as open source. The Danish government is planning to implement the software all over the country, starting next year. The software is available on Github and can be re-used by health care organisations in other countries.

Doctors 2.0 & You 4th Edition Start-up Contest announced the winning and runner-up digital health start-up companies. First place was awarded to Medivizor (Israel) represented by Tal Givoly. Second place was awarded to Medexo (Germany) represented by Jan-Christoph Loh.

Lack of access to patient information in real-time is affecting the ability of 88% of community health workers to perform their roles, reveals a study of 17 healthcare organisations throughout the UK.

IMS MAXIMS has released the open source code for its full MAXIMS suite including its electronic patient record (EPR) and patient administration system (PAS) free of charge to the NHS.

Virgin Care has become one of the first NHS providers to equip staff with tablet computers running TotalMobile™, a mobile working solution that gives nurses access to all of the essential information that they need while they are visiting patients at home.

iMDsoft®, a leader in clinical information systems, announced that Klinikverbund Kempten-Oberallgäu in Germany, a hospital with four sites in Kempten, Immenstadt, Oberstdorf and Sonthofen, chose MetaVision for all of its ICUs, intermediate care units and operating rooms.

Anoto, the creator of digital writing technology, has announced that the maternity department of University Hospital of Wales, part of Cardiff & Vale University Health Board, is using its digital pen technology to record results of foetal fibronectin (FFN) tests and digitise test results to reduce time spend on administration and ensure the hospital has digital records of test results.