Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending November 8: NHS Covid app bungle, US telehealth figures, digital surveillance in South Africa, telehealth app expands to Kenya, Scotland and Northern Ireland Covid app interoperable, predicting Covid with wearables, US federal health IT strategy, delivering care from home, cyberattacks hit hospitals, Teladoc finalises $18.5b Livongo merger
Fault in NHS Covid app meant thousands at risk did not quarantine
The Guardian ~ Alex Hern ~ 03/11/2020
A code error in the NHS Covid-19 app meant users had to be next to a highly infectious patient for five times as long as the NHS had decided was risky before being instructed to self-isolate.
