Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending March 29: Sharing PHI in a pandemic, COVID-19 health IT coalition, NHS video consult panel, EMR strengths/weaknesses, AI success exaggerated, real-time location apps and coronavirus, Fitbit to track virus, COVID-19 hackers and spoofers
HHS: Information on COVID-19 patients can be shared to protect first responders from infection
FierceHealthcare ~ Heather Landi ~ 25/03/2020
Healthcare providers can share COVID-19 patients' medical information without their express authorization to help protect first responders from the risk of infection, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said.
Health IT heavy-hitters join forces for COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition
Healthcare IT News ~ Mike Miliard ~ 24/03/2020
The private-sector collaborative includes EHR vendors (Epic, athenahealth), Big Tech (AWS, Microsoft), health systems (Mayo, Intermountain) and others, all working to speed development of "secure, ethical, innovative, open source" tools.
