Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending May 3: HIPAA future after COVID, EMRs and pandemic, NHS contact tracing app plans, COVID skills on Alexa, FHIR use cases, audio-only telehealth, extra info on Summary Care Record, de-identified data for COVID research, free telehealth of US uninsured, telemedicine kiosks in aged care
As coronavirus strikes, crucial data in electronic health records hard to harvest
Kaiser Health news ~ Fred Schulte ~ 30/04/2020
Over the past decade, federal officials have spent some $36 billion switching from paper to electronic health records, or EHRs, expecting, among other things, to harness volumes of medical data to reveal which treatments work best.
Will Covid-19 kill HIPAA? No, but…
MedCity News ~ Arundhati Parmar ~ 27/04/2020
Doctors, lawyers, data privacy and security experts weigh in on the future of HIPAA after rules have been relaxed to better tackle the public health crisis that Covid-19 represents.
