Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending December 8: Case for ADT alerts, Halamka moves to Mayo, depression apps, telehealth improves access, telehealth for acute psychiatry, Agfa selling health IT business, Cerner prefers AWS, Tetris malware, data breach suits, cloud-based imaging, Amazon Transcribe Medical
Farzad Mostashari, Claudia Williams make the case for requiring hospital ADT alerts
FierceHealthcare ~ Farzad Mostashari and Claudia Williams ~ 04/12/2019
Through new proposals to its Interoperability & Patient Access to Health Data Rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has outlined a smart strategy of simply requiring that hospitals provide these notifications if they want to receive reimbursement from Medicare or Medicaid.
Halamka to join Mayo Clinic and lead its digital health effort
Health Data Management ~ Greg Slabodkin ~ 04/12/2019
John Halamka, MD, will be heading up the Mayo Clinic Platform, an initiative meant to elevate the provider to a global leadership position within digital healthcare.
