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.