Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending March 3: First faxes, now pagers out at NHS, Amazon's pharmacy plans, 10-yr $16b EMR, Canadian snoops, Alexa at Cedars-Sinai, cardiologists advice on Apple ECG, digital pathology, app shares data with Facebook, YouTube action on anti-vaxers, Apple Health VP, eHealthNews South Africa shuts down
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care wages war on pagers
Digital Health News ~ Hannah Crouch ~ 23/02/2019
NHS Trusts will be required to phase out pagers by the end of 2021, with all hospitals expected to have plans and infrastructure in place to ensure this is possible by the end of September 2020.
Amazon continues its push into the pharmacy business
CNBC ~ Christina Farr ~ 28/02/2019
Amazon has tapped 14-year company veteran Nader Kabbani to run its new pharmacy business, including the team that came in through last year's acquisition of PillPack.
