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Also, NHS Scotland and Microsoft develop track and trace system to help businesses.

Monthly Update: HIMSS Media Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock recaps some of April's biggest stories, including insurtech news, studies from Fitbit and telehealth being called into question.

As of last July, developers of digital health apps (DiGA) in Germany could no longer host sensitive personal data on American cloud servers. Dr Philipp Kircher from the Health Innovation Hub reveals what startups and cloud providers may think.  

Also: MGH and MIT create new tool for organizations to calculate benefits of onsite COVID-19 testing and Scanwell teams up with BD for a home coronavirus test.

Also: Kaiser Permanente doubles down on the cloud with Accenture and Microsoft; Boehringer Ingelheim arms its reps with BreezoMeter's air quality data.

Leaders from Verizon, VA, Microsoft and Medivis discuss how Project Convergence is bringing augmented reality and AI to the surgical theater, thanks to 5G technology, thereby enhancing care to veterans.

Also: Vocalis Health and Mayo Clinic seek new pulmonary hypertension biomarkers; Sensyne Health and Microsoft's strategic partnership focuses on clinical AI co-development.

At a recent online event, Novartis Chief Digital Officer Betrand Bodson gave an update on a digital strategy that began in 2018.

Formed under the banners of the Consumer Technology Association and the Connected Health Initiative, the coalition's membership includes big names like Google, Boston Children's Hospital, Microsoft, ResMed and others.

A new study conducted among SilverCloud Health program users employed machine learning to identify relationships between app-use frequency and clinical outcomes.