Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending November 25: Finland's health villages, patients to sell own data, Apple's plans for veterans' EHR, Canada Infoway's big idea, US interoperability framework, hacks often inside jobs, DeepMind and Google, Amazon and PillPack, oncology ePROs, Goldacre chairs UK healthtech advisory board
Inside Health Villages, Finland's multimodal digital push to bring healthcare to the home
MobiHealthNews ~ Jonah Comstock ~ 21/11/2018
For the last two years, HUS has been working with a variety of private and public partners to launch Health Villages (Terveyskylä in Finnish), a three-pronged online and mobile platform geared toward bringing as much of the care process as possible out of the hospital and into patients’ homes.
Silicon Valley startup launches blockchain product for patients to sell their data
MedCity News ~ Kevin Truong ~ 21/11/2018
Dubbed PatientSphere, Open Health Network's platform ingests patient data from sources like EHR records, mobile health applications, wearable devices and programs like Apple HealthKit into one dashboard.
