Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending February 12:
DoD quietly rolls out EHR pilot MHS Genesis
Healthcare IT News ~ Jessica Davis ~ 09/02/2017
This is just the first phase of the DoD's massive EHR revamp, which has been in the works for the past four years. Cerner and Leidos won a $4.3 billion contract in July 2015 to help modernize and consolidate the military EHR.
21 percent of Americans have used virtual healthcare, 78 percent are interested
MobiHealthNews ~ Jonah Comstock ~ 09/02/2017
The gulf between how many Americans say, in a survey, that they would like to use digital health services and how many actually have is still quite large, according to a new survey from Accenture.
