Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending December 15: NHS in secret talks with big tech over patient data, digital health formulary, paper scripts and opioids, 11-country survey of GPs on IT, GP genome screening, digital pathology solution, inconsistent EMRs, Amazon's digital voice scribe, five million vets with PHR, spatial computing in healthcare, AI institute
NHS bosses meet with tech giants to discuss commercial patient database
Digital Health News ~ Andrea Downey ~ 12/11/2019
Key players from the NHS, big tech and pharma have held meetings to discuss how to commercialise tens of millions of medical records culled from a massive new proposed national patient record database.
Express Scripts selects first crop of tech tools to include on new digital health formulary
FierceHealthcare ~ Paige Minemyer ~ 12/11/2019
America’s largest pharmacy benefit manager announced in May that it intended to create an industry-first digital health formulary to make it easier for health insurers to vet the tools for their members, especially as the number of solutions available in the market continues to grow.
