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Some say the measure would force patients to pay for phone calls that are currently free.

Centralized care, with a hospital as the “hub,” is the standard in the U.

Also: UK ministers to organise roundtable with companies to explore the impact of technology on loneliness and Japanese hospital joins AI research project through five-year partnership with London-based DeepMind Health.

Manal Almalki, PhD, of Jazan University in Saudi Arabia, is empowering patients to monitor their health at home so they can gain insights into their own body using wearables; the tool is also aggregating data during the patient-run experiments.

Experts at the 2018 Connected Health Conference discussed the importance of technology adoption and how new tools can encourage stronger patient-provider relationships.

Simone Orlowski, senior user experience researcher at Partners Connected Health Innovation, talks designing for behavior change, leading up to next week's Connected Health Conference in Boston. 

At next week's Connected Health Conference, doctors from Harvard and UPMC will tackle the question of whether telemedicine's costs outweigh its benefits.

European Investment Bank supports the implementation of Ireland's eHealth programme with a €225m loan.

The Department of Health and Social Care estimates that the WannaCry cyber attack from May 2017 cost the NHS £92m.

Also: Researchers building apps for consumer genetic test literacy; patients favor biometric matching.