Covid-19 has laid bare crippling interoperability issues.
Memeburn ~ Sam Spiller ~ 03/03/2021
The app allows officials to scan a QR code on the traveller’s phone to check if they have been tested or vaccinated.
AP ~ Frank Jordans ~ 04/03/2021
“There are historical reasons why we don’t have a centralised register like in Denmark,” said von Gaudecker, citing Germany’s grim history of state oppression under Nazism and communism.
The Connexion ~ Hannah Thompson ~ 04/03/2021
Mr Macron said that it would be intended to hold a record of recent negative Covid tests, and would also show if the holder had been vaccinated.
Digital Health News ~ Andrea Downey ~ 04/03/2021
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28 February 2021.
EMR burnout, Canadian provincial PMS fail, FHIR API links PMS to Apple Health Records, RwandAir to trial IATA travel pass, Google building health record search tool, NHS digital assessment criteria, COVID-19 app for aged care, COVID-19 dataset, Ryuk targeting French hospitals, IBM Watson Health sale
Healthcare IT News ~ Kat Jercich ~ 19/02/2021
Many 2020 fellows labeled concerns around decreased data quality from cut/paste behaviors, forced workarounds due to EHR limitations, increase in documentation and reporting requirements, and clinician cognitive load as much worse than we expected.
CBC News ~ Jacques Poitras ~ 23/02/2021
The New Brunswick government botched the rollout of an electronic medical record system for doctors, leading to $26 million of provincial and federal money being spent on a tool that fewer than half of the province s physicians adopted.
Written by Kate McDonald on
14 February 2021.
Estonia trials vaccine passport, Cerner’s plans for data business, Google search for Covid outbreaks, Canada launches telewound partnership, UK review of health data, API vulnerabilities in health apps, NHS Covid app success, Japan Covid app failure, hackers post patient data, iPhone magnets affect pacemakers, SMS for Covid comms
AFP ~ Staff writer ~ 10/02/2021
Could a QR code open up the world? That is the question in Estonia as it takes a lead in global efforts to develop digital vaccine passports.
FierceHealthcare ~ Heather Landi ~ 10/02/2021
With slowing growth in the medical records software market, Cerner is eyeing opportunities in its data business, including in the clinical research space.
Written by Kate McDonald on
31 January 2021.
Israel leads vax roll-out, Covid passport in Kenya, PCR tests on phone, Japan relies on paper, US gaps in health data, UK Pinnacle system, AI for DI in Canada, IT strategies for vax, V-Health passport, Samsung smartwatch ECG, Google VaccineFinder, Covid data theft, digital health boost for German hospitals, Philips buys Capsule
The Times of Israel ~ Nathan Jeffay ~ 14/01/2021
While the US and UK are both giving out more vaccinations than Israel in sheer numbers, they both lack the centralized electronic record-keeping of Israel’s four health maintenance organizations, which have been tasked with distributing the majority of the shots.
Written by Kate McDonald on
13 December 2020.
Pulse+IT s weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending December 13: Free PHR for Android, Palantir s Tiberius Covax monitor, 10 big health data breaches, Google s health research app, AliveCor sues Apple over ECG, Apple wins blood pressure monitor patent, facility-level COVID data, Watson Assistant and COVID messages, risks of EMRs
MobiHealthNews ~ Dave Muoio ~ 07/12/2020
Called CommonHealth, the platform is designed as an alternative to Apple s Health Records for those without an iPhone.
Health IT Security ~ Jessica Davis ~ 10/12/2020
Much like in 2019, the biggest healthcare data breach of 2020 was caused by a third-party vendor, while ransomware and other risks dominated the threat landscape.