GE Healthcare plans $2bn software investment

Will focus on the convergence of machine and intelligent data

Google ‘aiding and abetting’ illegal online pharmacies

US state attorney general takes issue with auto-complete and ad policies

PatientsLikeMe signs clinical trial deal with inVentiv Health

Online patient network aims to help the CRO accelerate trial recruitment

Pharmacists take tablets to keep up in new NHS

Pharmacy group Alphega to offer free devices and tailored apps to its UK members

Mobile cancer game to accelerate search for a cure

Cancer Research UK will this year launch game that will harness 'citizen science'

- PMLiVE

DJM Digital opens New York office

Will work alongside Creston Health’s US companies

- PMLiVE

mHealth could cut EU’s chronic disease costs

Mobile operators association says compliance and monitoring could be improve through technology

- PMLiVE

Data control: pharma and big data in healthcare

Whether it's big, smart or right, this could be the year pharma and healthcare sees large benefits from data

Lack of social media confidence ‘holding pharma back’

But regulatory restrictions no longer the primary barrier to engagement

- PMLiVE

Roche is drawn to science for YouTube campaign

Therapeutic antibodies, stem cells and Zebrafish tackled in series of fun videos

- PMLiVE

Boehringer/ Lilly launch online diabetes management game

Pharma companies aim to raise awareness of type 2 diabetes complications

Wireless pill bottle wins Boehringer healthcare innovation prize

AdhereTech's winning entry aims to increase patient adherence

- PMLiVE

UK pharmacists get social media guidance

Royal Pharmaceutical Society collects crowd-sourced tools and information on how to use Twitter, Facebook etc

NHS to receive £260m for patient safety technology

Majority of hospital fund will be used for electronic prescribing

UCB and IBM to harness big data for personalised epilepsy care

Joint project could pave the way for therapy area use of IBM's Watson