The Smart Clothing 2.0 project led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd creates business opportunities for Finnish smart clothing and services. Research institutes and companies are working together to develop completely new products for the international markets.

HIMSS Europe has launched Future50 supported by IBM Watson Health, a new flagship initiative that aims to identify and bring together the top 50 leaders in European Healthcare IT in a community that will further the field's transformation.

InterSystems, a global leader in information technology platforms for health, business, and government applications, has introduced the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform®. Built around a high-performance database, InterSystems IRIS is the first and only data platform to provide all of the critical capabilities for rapidly developing data-intensive and mission- critical applications, including advanced data management, interoperability, transaction processing, and analytics.

For the 6th time, MEDICA 2017 will see the world's largest live competition for the best App-based Medical Mobile Solution for use in the daily routine of a patient, a doctor or in the hospital - the MEDICA App COMPETITION 2017 - hosted in the 7th session of the MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM on Wednesday, 15 November 2017.

Thousands of GP surgeries across the UK can now improve practice efficiency and gain more time to care for their patients through an agreement that will see the Surgery Connect telephone solution available directly through the EMIS GP clinical system.

Surgery Connect, from X-on, is a cloud-based telephone solution that features - uniquely through one system - services such as

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted marketing of the first mobile medical application to help treat substance use disorders (SUD). The Reset application is intended to be used with outpatient therapy to treat alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and stimulant SUDs. The application is not intended to be used to treat opioid dependence.

NHS trusts spend £6.6m a year on 'blunt instruments' for communications, when smartphones could replace pagers, save millions of pounds and deliver crucial information to the frontline, a new report from CommonTime has found. Millions of pounds is being spent on outdated and even broken pager devices every year in NHS hospitals, whilst doctors are calling for more modern means of frontline communication, a new report has revealed.