Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending October 18: France told to drop US cloud for health data, India's digital health ID, NHS's Excelgate, healthcare consumerism platform, Microsoft Teams takes off, semantic interoperability, US telehealth reimbursement, scanner to ID patients, Cerner's interop tools, blockchain-powered Digital Health Pass
France’s Health Data Hub to move to European cloud infrastructure to avoid EU-US data transfers
TechCrunch ~ Romain Dillet ~ 13/10/2020
Those services should avoid using American cloud hosting companies altogether, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.
India hopes digital health ID can get economy moving again
Bloomberg ~ Vrishti Beniwal ~ 14/10/2020
A $23 million program offering a digital health ID to every citizen could bolster India’s economic growth amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the head of the country’s health authority.
