Covid-19 has laid bare crippling interoperability issues.
Memeburn ~ Sam Spiller ~ 03/03/2021
The app allows officials to scan a QR code on the traveller’s phone to check if they have been tested or vaccinated.
AP ~ Frank Jordans ~ 04/03/2021
“There are historical reasons why we don’t have a centralised register like in Denmark,” said von Gaudecker, citing Germany’s grim history of state oppression under Nazism and communism.
The Connexion ~ Hannah Thompson ~ 04/03/2021
Mr Macron said that it would be intended to hold a record of recent negative Covid tests, and would also show if the holder had been vaccinated.
Digital Health News ~ Andrea Downey ~ 04/03/2021
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Healthcare IT News ~ Kat Jercich ~ 19/02/2021
Many 2020 fellows labeled concerns around decreased data quality from cut/paste behaviors, forced workarounds due to EHR limitations, increase in documentation and reporting requirements, and clinician cognitive load as much worse than we expected.
CBC News ~ Jacques Poitras ~ 23/02/2021
The New Brunswick government botched the rollout of an electronic medical record system for doctors, leading to $26 million of provincial and federal money being spent on a tool that fewer than half of the province s physicians adopted.
Unlike Austria’s electronic health record you cannot opt out of the electronic certificate scheme.
Digital Health News ~ Andrea Downey ~ 14/01/2021
A lack of data integration across the health and social care sectors “throttled” the timely sharing of vital information to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report has found.
FierceHealthcare ~ Tina Reed ~ 15/01/2021
The rule requires payers in certain government programs to build application programming interfaces (APIs) for data exchange and prior authorization.
MedCity News ~ Anuja Vaidya ~ 15/01/2021
A coalition, comprising of health technology companies, providers and nonprofits will establish an initiative to provide people with digital access to their Covid-19 vaccination records.