Healthcare Digital June 2021 | Page 14

GLOBAL NEWS

1 JAMAICA

Jamaica digitises healthcare

2 UNITED KINGDOM

Brexit more damaging to UK healthcare than COVID-19
The Jamaican Government is investing $ 8.5 million to digitally transform its healthcare system , with the aim of reducing transaction time and cost . The Ministry of Health is currently in the process of finding a vendor to roll out home care and telemedicine services .
A new survey by GlobalData has found that healthcare professionals believe Brexit will be worse for the UK ’ s healthcare sector than COVID- 19 . The issues they cited included border restrictions and additional regulations for businesses based in the UK and the EU .
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