Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending June 21: Trouble with COVID contact tracing apps in Bahrain, Kuwait, Norway, UK, US, embracing digital health in age of coronavirus, hospital interoperability platform, using HIEs to increase interoperability, telephone and text trump telehealth, retailers entering digital health sector
Privacy fears over COVID apps by Bahrain, Kuwait, Norway
Al Jazeera ~ Staff writer ~ 16/06/2020
Live tracking of users' locations puts thousands of people at risk, Amnesty International says.
Government abandons contact-tracing app for Apple and Google’s tech
Digital Health News ~ Andrea Downey ~ 18/06/2020
The government has abandoned its model for the NHS contact-tracing app and switched to Google and Apple’s technology.
