Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending August 30: FHIR interoperability mandate, medical interoperability gateway, Amazon's wearable health tracker, Fitbit advanced health smartwatch, PHI in medical images, video monitors for COVID, patient-initiated follow-ups, VA's $16b EHR begins, telehealth billing rorts
Payers are working to meet deadline for interoperability mandate
Healthcare Finance ~ Susan Morse ~ 21/08/2020
The majority of health plans say they do not feel ready to meet the new FHIR interoperability standards mandated by CMS.