Government & Policy

In the next three years, Selena+, a system which analyzes retinal photographs across the nation for diabetes screening will be deployed.

Sam Shah, digital health advisor and former NHSX director of digital development, says personal health records, health information exchange and other digital health learnings can be extracted from the Middle East experiences.

Building bridges to share expertise around innovation in the NHS is at the heart of a new partnership between HIMSS and Healthcare UK, says Rahul Agarwal, assistant director of healthcare at the Department for International Trade in the UK.

Dr Layla McCay, director of international relations at the NHS Confederation, warns that Brexit “should not hinder” the collaboration between the UK and other European countries in the field of health research.

The health system will pay $3 million to settle with OCR and take corrective action after protected health information was left unencrypted on lost and stolen mobile devices.

When looking at digitising healthcare, the challenges that European countries are grappling with are vast.

The cloud-based EHR developer had alleged that a former customer, ZenCharts, which plans to appeal, had violated a user agreement, cloning its software to develop a system of its own.

Digital leaders from Singapore, the Netherlands, Finland and more met in Berlin this week to talk about the transformation of their health systems.

The number of healthcare organizations served by DirectTrust health information service providers and engaged in Direct exchange was up nearly 75% in Q3. New members include Konica Minolta and the Social Security Administration.

The more than two-dozen participants chosen to move on to Stage 1 of the challenge include Accenture, Geisinger, IBM, Mayo Clinic, Merck, Northrop Grumman and others.