Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending May 15:
Boston Children's big data effort provides near real-time influenza tracking
Health Data Management ~ Greg Slabodkin ~ 12/05/2016
Using cloud-based data from electronic health records, a Boston Children’s Hospital-led research team has successfully demonstrated that it can detect cases of influenza in near real-time and in the process beat similar reporting by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by at least one week.
Bitcoin tech applied to clinical trial documents
Digital Health News ~ Lyn Whitfield ~ 12/05/2016
The blockchain technology that underpins the virtual currency Bitcoin has been applied to clinical trial documents, to see if it can stop them being altered to make it look as if medicines are more effective than they are.
