Morning Headlines 5/18/20
Cerner, Hallmark, H&R Block: when Kansas City’s big employers plan to return to office
Cerner will begin moving employees back on campus Monday, starting with 10% of its workforce and aiming for no more than 50%.
Microsoft and UnitedHealth Group offer their self-developed ProtectWell coronavirus symptom screening app, which they will use for their own employees, to all US companies at no charge.
Software problems thwart patient consultations with NHS specialists
The NHS and its remote consult vendor, Attend Anywhere, attempt to get the health service’s telemedicine software up and running reliably after several outages last week.
House and Senate Democrats Introduce Public Health Emergency Privacy Act
Lawmakers introduce the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act, which would require individuals to opt in and that data collected for pandemic efforts be deleted afterward, and would prohibit using the data for purposes outside of public health.
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