Morning Headlines 12/7/20
The non-profit Commons Project has connected its CommonHealth app to 230 health systems, allowing the majority of Americans who use Android devices to use Apple Health-like functionality to obtain their health records from connected providers.
City of Chicago Launches New Data Analytics Tool in Fight Against COVID-19
The Chicago Department of Public Health and Rush University Medical Center launch a COVID-19 tracking hub to which all 28 area hospitals have agreed to contribute lab test results, CCDA information from Epic-using sites, and capacity information.
GBMC Health Care experiences information technology systems outage
Greater Baltimore Medical Center experiences a network disruption that has taken down several of its IT systems.
"most people just go to Epic" that's a problem because then EPIC becomes a monopoly in healthcare, if it isn't…