Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending August 4: Big tech commits to FHIR, US launches MyHealthEData, AI can predict AKI, backdoors to medical devices, Cerner picks AWS, DirectTrust standards for real-time messaging, Surescripts' war with Amazon, paediatricians and portals, free FHIR tools, voice commands for EMRs, $5b for Vista
Tech giants reaffirm support for FHIR interoperability standard
Health Data Management ~ Greg Slabodkin ~ 31/07/2019
Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce once again have pledged to work to advance HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources application programming interface.
CMS launches new API to help doctors get access to patient records
MobiHealthNews ~ Laura Lovett ~ 30/07/2019
The pilot is part of a larger CMS initiative called MyHealthEData, which is focused on giving patients more access to their medical data.
