Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending October 11: England's Excel COVID tracing bungle, Apple Health Records now available in UK and Canada, app prescribing in Germany, Lyft within Epic, EMRs and machine learning for real-time predictions, NHS's digital transformation during COVID, Zurich buys Aus and S African tech, digital health pass, ransomware attack on clinical trials
Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost
BBC ~ Leo Kelion ~ 06/10/2020
The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England.