Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending August 12: Apple FHIRs up data sharing, 80 US health services link to Apple Health, Google for clinical notes, London goes paperless for scripts, bugs lurk in OpenEMR, Blue Button API, EHR state of play in South Africa, Nova Scotia snoop, Meaningful Use overhaul, CVS MinuteClinic
Apple sees FHIR as way to liberate patient data
Health Data Management ~ Greg Slabodkin ~ 09/08/2018
As healthcare seeks to solve its interoperability challenges, tech giant Apple is positioned to empower data-sharing on a massive scale with consumer mobile apps that use emerging industry standards.
Apple health records project continues to gain provider participants
Healthcare Informatics ~ Rajiv Leventhal ~ 06/08/2018
As of an Aug. 2 update from Apple, approximately 80 provider institutions are on board with the project.
