Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending November 12:
‘NHS Cyber Security Batsignal’ peer-to-peer alerting system to launch next month
Digital Health News ~ Jon Hoeksma ~ 09/11/2017
The new community-developed incident and alerting service is designed to provide immediate alerts of future cyber security incidents and enable sharing of information on how to respond.
The promise, growth, and reality of mobile health – another data-free zone
New England Journal of Medicine ~ Amira Roess ~ 08/11/2017
The use of mobile communication technologies to improve the health of individuals and populations – dubbed “mobile health,” or “mHealth” – has grown dramatically since 2008, when the term mHealth became widely used.