Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending October 16:
Legal records lurking in EHRs add new wrinkle to malpractice lawsuits
Healthcare IT News ~ Diana Manos ~ 13/10/2016
Electronic health records platforms are leaving doctors exposed by making it hard to demonstrate what they did and why. Some providers are even settling malpractice suits and not because of guilt. Hospitals cannot ignore the issue anymore.
Precision Medicine Initiative expands with Geisinger, Partners HealthCare
Healthcare IT News ~ Bernie Monegain ~ 13/10/2016
The National Institutes of Health will add four groups of healthcare provider organizations to a national network designed to put the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program to work.
