Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending November 4: 420,000 join Apple heart study, healthcare's most wired, US Medicare to cover telehealth, mandatory breach notification in Canada, HIEs connect to Military Health System, Cerner opioid toolkit, Cerner progress with DoD, AI for sepsis, certified EHR tech
Apple Watch heart study with Stanford signs up 400,000 people
Bloomberg ~ Robert Langreth ~ 01/11/2018
More than 400,000 people have signed up for a Stanford University study being sponsored by Apple Inc. to examine whether Apple Watch can detect patients with undiagnosed heart rhythm problems, one of the largest heart screening studies ever to be conducted.
