Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending May 12: Open notes beneficial to patients, Kaiser Permanente targets SDoH, NHS GP numbers plunge, robo-kitties help elderly, AI for retinal imaging, vulnerability in Philips' Tasy EMR, Apple plans health app boost, avoiding another WannaCry, NowICU video for NICU, California ambulance joins HIE
Patients report benefits of having access to EHR clinical notes
Health Data Management ~ Joseph Goedert ~ 07/05/2019
Patients derive multiple benefits, including the ability to better manage their care, if they can access their electronic health records to read clinicians’ notes after medical visits.
Kaiser Permanente building infrastructure to 'connect the dots' for social determinants
FierceHealthcare ~ Heather Landi ~ 08/05/2019
The health system is partnering with Unite Us, a social determinants technology and care coordination platform, to build the technology infrastructure that will enable Kaiser Permanente to better address social determinants and "connect all the dots in a systematic way" for its millions of members.