Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending July 19: Patients want digital health, patients want telehealth, digital health literacy, COVID-19 data platform, LOINC joins international standards org, Patients Know Best added to NHS app, digital physiotherapy, GOSH gets EMRAM and O-EMRAM 6
Half of consumers avoid seeking care because it's too difficult
FierceHealthcare ~ Jeff Lagasse ~ 13/07/2020
Finding, accessing, and paying for healthcare in America requires so much work that half of consumers have avoided seeking care altogether, a new survey has found.
Calls for greater investment in GP telehealth following Covid-19
Digital Health News ~ Andrea Downey ~ 15/07/2020
The report, which builds on the RCGP's vision for what general practice should look like in 2030, calls for further commitments to digital technology to enable remote monitoring, digital consultations, flexible working and better sharing of data.
