The Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale has made available a new website with open data from the Public Administration.
Continue readingNew PA open data portal goes online
Author: Massimo Mangia
A proposal to digitise the package leaflet for medicines
The Associazione Farmaceutici dell’Industria (Afi) presented the ‘My e-Leaflet’ project which was developed with key stakeholders from the Italian healthcare community, including patient associations, healthcare professionals and practitioners.
Continue readingPresident Macron announces €1 billion for cyber security after ransomware attacks on two French hospitals
Hospitals in Dax and Villefranche-sur-Saône were paralysed by attacks in which hackers blocked telephone systems, forcing the hospitals to disable the internet to prevent the spread of ransomware.
Continue readingGoogle introduces Care Studio, a tool for navigating information in electronic health records
The software is able to aggregate and amalgamate information from different clinical systems.
Continue readingNHS launches care integration project
The UK government has published a white paper setting out legislative proposals for a Health and Care Bill.
Continue readingNHS app is estimated to prevent 600,000 infections in UK
The estimate was provided by the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), which reported that the NHS COVID-19 app has warned over 1.7 million users of potential exposure to the virus since its release in September.
Continue readingApple Watch can monitor Parkinson’s symptoms
This was demonstrated in a study conducted by Apple with Stony Brook University published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Continue readingTwo new Garmin smartwatches for women’s well-being
Clinical Decision Support System: features, uses, benefits and short-comings
What Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) look like, how they work, what constraints they have and what contribution they can make to improving doctors’ decision-making: all you need to know.
A bracelet that measures blood pressure
Swiss company Aktiia has obtained CE IIA certification for its wearable device that continuously measures blood pressure.
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