Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending July 22: Blockchain on FHIR with Health Wizz, AI code of conduct, medical device security, ransomware attack on Canadian care homes, NHS telehealth, NHS virtual primary care, EMR global footprint, dodgy mental health apps, EMRs can cut mortality rates
Health Wizz pilots blockchain and FHIR mobile app for EHRs
MobiHealthNews ~ Bill Siwicki ~ 18/07/2018
Health Wizz has updated and is piloting its unusual blockchain- and FHIR-enabled EHR aggregator mobile app, which uses blockchain to tokenize data, enabling patients to securely aggregate, organize, share, donate and/or trade their medical records.
NHS England to publish AI code of conduct
Digital Health News ~ Hannah Crouch ~ 19/07/2018
NHS England plans to publish a code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare later this year.