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Written by Kate McDonald on 06 December 2020.

Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending December 6: Germany's digital transformation, dawn of digital medicine, phishing vaccine cold chain, pyjama time charting, Japanese doctors go digital, consult prep tool for patients, standardising patient addresses, linking vaccination records, Fitbit predicts COVID onset, rapid hospital at home

Want to see the future of digital health tools? Look to Germany.Harvard Business Review ~ Ariel D Stern ~ 02/12/2020

In late 2019, Germanys parliament passed the Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz, or DVG) an ambitious law designed to catalyze the digital transformation of the German health care system.

The dawn of digital medicineThe Economist ~ Staff writer ~ 02/12/2020

The pandemic is ushering in the next trillion-dollar industry.

IBM uncovers global email attack on Covid vaccine supply chainCNBC ~ Noah Higgins-Dunn ~ 03/12/2020

The companys task force dedicated to tracking down Covid-19 cybersecurity threats said it discovered fraudulent emails impersonating a Chinese business executive at a credible cold-chain supply company.

Ambient documentation with Epic helps reduce clinician burnout at Monument HealthHealthcare IT News ~ Bill Siwicki ~ 03/12/2020

The goal of its Nuance deployment is to significantly reduce after-hours pajama time charting while introducing the voice of the patient to the EHR, says its CIO and CMIO.

Google Health and HHS' AHRQ detail new pilot project helping patients prep for their doctor's appointmentMobiHealthNews ~ Dave Muoio ~ 02/12/2020

The tool would help patients develop health questions for their clinician, and reminds them to bring along any necessary test results or other materials.

The pandemic is inducing Japanese doctors to go digitalThe Economist ~ Staff writer ~ 02/12/2020

Telemedicine and electronic record-keeping are at last on the rise.

New ONC initiative aims to standardize patient address formatsMedCity News ~ Anuja Vaidya ~ 02/12/2020

Launching in 2021, the ONC's Project US@ aims to enhance efforts to correctly link patients with their health data a key part of interoperability by standardizing the way patients' mailing addresses are formatted.

Thousands of US lab results and medical records spilled online after a security lapseTechCrunch ~ Zack Whittaker ~ 02/12/2020

NTreatment, a technology company that manages electronic health and patient records for doctors and psychiatrists, left thousands of sensitive health records exposed to the internet because one of its cloud servers wasnt protected with a password.

Electronic flu vaccine notifications service expandedDigital Health News ~ Hannah Crouch ~ 01/12/2020

A service that sends information about flu vaccinations electronically from pharmacies to GP practices has been expanded ahead of winter.

Fitbit study predicts onset of COVID-19 and hospitalization likelihoodMobiHealthNews ~ Mallory Hackett ~ 01/12/2020

Consumer wearable devices can be key tools in predicting the onset of illnesses like COVID-19 by using health metrics like breathing rate, resting heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV), according to findings published in npj Digital Medicine from Fitbit.

Brigham and Womens, Biofourmis launch hospital-at-home solution nationwideMedCity News ~ Anuja Vaidya ~ 01/12/2020

In January, Brigham published a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine that showed the efficacy of its home hospital program, which utilized the co-developed solution.

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International health IT week in review: December 6 - Pulse+IT