Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending November 10: VA joins Apple Health, eHealth in Estonia, Netherlands and Scandinavia, NpfIT culture lingers, Alberta live with $C459m Epic system, Carnet santé Québec disappoints, Germans dissatisfied with digital progress, $US75m for PathAI, big take-up for US secure messaging, NHS pagers leaking data, Google and Fitbit, Orion in the UK
Apple adds VA to its list of organizations making data available on its Health Records
MedCity News ~ Arundhati Parmar ~ 06/11/2019
The partnership was previously announced but now all veterans who get their care from any VA hospital and use iPhones can see that data alongside other health data in Apple's Health Records section of the Health app.
Estonia, the Netherlands & Nordics continue to drive eHealth adoption and use in Europe
Healthcare IT News ~ Leontina Postelnicu ~ 07/11/2019
The world has long looked at the Nordics as an example for driving much of the innovation that is happening nowadays, and the situation is no different in digital health, according to a new study from HIMSS, in cooperation with McKinsey.
