Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending April 12: Formulary of COVID apps, pandemics and privacy, Bahrain tracks with electronic bracelets, dashboard to track pandemic equipment needs, telehealth in the long term, NHS Teams, more Zoom vulnerabilities, COVID-19 data platform, US consumer views on telehealth
ORCHA launches library of clinically approved Covid-19 health apps
Digital Health News ~ Andrea Downey ~ 08/04/2020
App evaluation company ORCHA has launched a Covid-19 formulary to signpost healthcare professionals and consumers to clinically validated apps.
COVID-19 pandemic opens up new frontiers for health data privacy
Healthcare IT News ~ Piers Ford ~ 08/04/2020
While European governments look to digital health technology for ways to speed up their containment strategies, the long-term view is that the COVID-19 emergency will generate new approaches to sharing healthcare data once the pandemic has passed.
