Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending December 2: Amazon launches NLP tool, Ping An plans unstaffed AI clinics, Apple ECG app to go live, sepsis algorithms save lives, Ghana's mHealth for hypertension, NHS links ambos to mental health plans, $69b CVS-Aetna deal, Canadian genomics platform, telehealth in Alaska, Cerner FHIR APIs live in Oxford, insurer opens EHR to SA patients
Amazon’s latest healthcare foray is a major step into health informatics
MedCity News ~ Kevin Truong ~ 28/11/2018
A new software service from the company called Amazon Comprehend Medical uses machine learning and natural language processing to extract relevant medical information from doctors' notes, clinical trial reports and patient health records
Ping An Good Doctor blazes trail in developing unstaffed, AI-assisted clinics in China
South China Morning Post ~ Yingzhi Yang ~ 19/11/2018
China’s biggest online health care services provider plans to build ‘hundreds of thousands’ of its telephone booth-sized, AI-powered clinics and roll these out across the country in three years.
