Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending October 20: Germany's plans for digital health, FHIR insertion for personal data into EMRs, Apple Watch to record consults verbally, phishing expeditions, barriers to eHealth adoption, Sony's wearable platform, UK's national record locator pilot, Amazon Textract is HIPAA compliant, Johnson adviser's ties to Babylon
Germany aims to become EU leader in digital health revamp
Politico ~ Carmen Paun ~ 16/10/2019
The German health ministry wants to create an electronic health record for all insured patients by 2021.
Joint task force to simplify merging personal health data into EHRs
Healthcare IT News ~ Bill Siwicki ~ 15/10/2019
A joint task force formed earlier this year has drafted a specification that applies the HL7 FHIR standard to report measurements taken by personal healthcare devices and mobile apps outside of healthcare facilities and report those measurements back to the person’s electronic health record.
