Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is expanding its portfolio of data services for the healthcare and life sciences industries.
Azure Healthcare APIs, formerly named the Azure API for FHIR, allows users to input health data and map it to the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), allowing the information to be easily searched and shared or managed with machine learning and artificial...
UK-based app Pando has come under scrutiny for a security breach which saw NHS patients’ photos automatically uploaded onto users’ smartphones.
The clinical communication tool, which has been approved under the NHS Clinical Communication Procurement Framework, is used to send messages, test results, X-Rays and photographs between care teams. It is reportedly used by more than 60,000 NHS staff...
Earlier this week, Apple announced a new health sharing feature that gives patients the reins in sharing consumer-generated health data with their doctors, family and friends.
Apple has been working on giving patients more access to their data for years. In 2018, the company rolled out Health Records on iOS, which aggregates existing user-generated data in their Health app with data from their...
Estonia-based digital therapeutics company Epillo Health Systems has launched its latest line of clinical solutions. It comprises EHR systems for clinics and pharmacies and a mobile app for patients, which is now available in Singapore, Malaysia, India and the US.
WHAT IT DOES
The web-based INTRx Clinical system helps clinicians manage patient portfolio and health with features such as e-...
The EU’s new regulation on medical devices finally came into full application today, following a year’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the European Commission, the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) seeks to ensure a high level of public health and patient safety taking into account scientific progress.
The regulation entered into force in May 2017, replacing the Medical Devices...
Healthcare SaaS provider DrFirst collected an additional $50 million equity investment from Sixth Street Growth, following the firm’s $35 million investment from last year.
Between Six Street Growth’s contributions and another $50 million from Goldman Sachs Growth, DrFirst has raised $135 million in the past year alone.
In addition to its investment, Sixth Street Growth principal Lee Mooney has...
The largest airline in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is now in the process of implementing paperless document verification relating to COVID-19 PCR testing and vaccination.
This week, Emirates announced it is working with the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) to allow for digital verification of travellers’ data, resulting in a more secure and efficient procedure.
Rather than producing a paper copy...
In Germany, the public health insurers are in charge of the ePatient record (ePA) app delivery. MobiHealthNews asked Sandra Hoyer, ePA project manager at one of Germany’s main insurers, Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), how the implementation works - and how it has been used so far.
Q. The payers are responsible for providing the national ePA in Germany. How does that work?
At the moment we provide...
A service allowing national apps to talk to each other has been set up by the European Commission, allowing users to receive a warning if they were in contact with someone who has indicated that they have tested positive for COVID-19.
Adopted by the majority of the Member States, the service works according to a “decentralised” system where the calculations happen in the user’s app. In...
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.jpg?itok=1vrgxLfA "The integration with the Dubai Health Authority reportedly makes the emirate one of the first cities in the world to implement full digital verification of traveller COVID-19 medical records.")
.jpg?itok=rg058rsW "Since January 2021, all statutorily insured 72 million German citizens have been legally entitled to a national electronic patient record (ePA).")
.jpg?itok=bEfbB3I8 "Member States and the European Commission have set up a service to allow national apps to talk to each other.")
