Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending August 16: Germany's digital health plans, Meow bot to the rescue, NHS England contact tracing app, remote-controlled ventilators for COVID, home health tech for rural patients, VR for 3D models, streaming video to ambos, Canada's digital tech supercluster, telehealth thumbs up for senior Americans, Epic employees get bolshie, switching from phone to video consults
What will it take for Germany to embrace digital health?
The BMJ ~ Helen Albert ~ 11/08/2020
Germany has long resisted digitisation, but could a new law and the covid-19 pandemic ease that attitude?
Unsecured database exposed on web - then deleted
Information Security Media Group ~ Marianne Kolbasuk McGee ~ 12/08/2020
Researcher says data on 3.1 million patients exposed. Did 'meow bot' fix the problem?
