EMEA News
The round-the-clock response of the NHS’s internal and external digital health community to COVID-19 has been more than impressive. But the ad hoc and rapid arrival of so many new applications also raises concerns about compliance and standardisation – and the role of the very unit that is supposed to be directing the operation.
The database will be provided to medical professionals for free through all mobile or desktop web browsers.
The staff bank represents a breakthrough for inter-trust and private-public collaboration.
Learning from the pandemic quickly, in order to take the digital health standard forward globally, was the sentiment voiced by leading stakeholders in a recent World Health Assembly virtual panel hosted by HIMSS.
The leading pharmacy brand has partnered with Population Health Management provider, TruDoc 24/7 to provide residents with “with round-the-clock” medical access.
The combined group will create the first integrated platform connecting patients, healthcare providers and healthcare information systems.
Known as the GCC’s largest laboratory operator, its fully functional field lab at Sharjah Expo Center is run by a team of ten, and is operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Precision medicine’s equivalent for people who are not necessarily ill, precision health, is only now starting to be developed.
It follows studies confirming that the test is widely inaccurate, giving false negative and positive results, offering an accuracy rate of just 30%.
Also, commercial results of the national testing programme in this week's Healthcare IT News roundup.