Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending June 28: Irish app is launching, Sodinokibi targeting healthcare POS devices, airline's COVID screening tool, Mass eHealth winds down, public health by fax, back-to-work screening, failed NHS app cost £11.8m, handwashing detection in Apple Watch, digital services in aged care, Finland's digital market
Ireland’s contact tracing app ready to launch
MobiHealthNews ~ Sara Mageit ~ 24/06/2020
The An Garda Siochana police force volunteered to take part in field trials to see how it would perform in everyday situations and the results have given health officials the confidence to launch the app to the public.
Sodinokibi ransomware gang targets POS software
Information Security Media Group ~ Akshaya Asokan ~ 24/06/2020
The Sodinokibi ransomware gang is targeting point-of-sale payment device software after infecting networks with its crypto-locking malware, according to Symantec's Threat Intelligence team.
