Written by Kate McDonald on
21 February 2021.
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BMJ ~ Marion Grote-Westrick ~ 18/02/2021
On 1 January 2021, the largest digitization project in the German healthcare system the electronic patient health record (elektronische Patientenakte – ePA) was launched after sixteen years of preparation.
InfoSecurity Magazine ~ Adam Palmer ~ 18/02/2021
First created in 1994 by the Japanese car company Toyota, Quick Response (QR) codes are commonly used to represent data in a pictorial form and contain a lot more data than barcodes.