Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending August 23: Global disease tracker returns, CDC bypass decision reversed, predicting COVID-19 with Fitbits, Jordanian telehealth for Beirut residents, ICD-10 codes weak on COVID, NHS IT purchasing framework, telehealth through the TV, remote pregnancy monitoring
Ottawa revives its global disease monitoring agency
Canadian Healthcare Technology ~ Staff writer ~ 19/08/2020
The agency is again issuing alerts about serious disease outbreaks for the first time since May 2019, when it was effectively shut down.
Covid-19 data will once again be collected by CDC, in policy reversal
Wall St Journal ~ Robbie Whelan ~ 20/08/2020
Hospitals will return to reporting new cases to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Trump administration says, after shift to Health and Human Services led to delays and data problems.
