Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending June 7: Lancet study retracted in face of growing data set scandal, inappropriate access to EMRs, drive-through service for pacemakers, dodgy COVID-19 apps, EMR safety, EMR rolls out during pandemic, machine learning for historical data, non-contact patient monitoring
A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
Science ~ Kelly Servick and Martin Enserink ~ 02/06/2020
A study published on 22 May in The Lancet used hospital records procured by a little-known data analytics company called Surgisphere to conclude that coronavirus patients taking chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine were more likely to show an irregular heart rhythm—a known side effect thought to be rare—and were more likely to die in the hospital.
