Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending April 26: 50% of US docs using telehealth, COVID-19 tracing apps, Epic supports interop rules, family pratices under threat, free devices for vulnerable Canadians, NHS app and pharmacies, DoD open to community health providers, Google Cloud Healthcare API, Fitbit to track COVID, patient portals
Half of physicians now using telehealth as COVID-19 changes practice operations
FierceHealthcare ~ Heather Landi ~ 23/04/2020
That's up from 18% of physicians using telemedicine two years ago, based on The Physicians Foundation’s "2018 Survey of America's Physicians."