EHRs

Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston partnered with Korean blockchain startup MediBloc to explore using the blockchain to store and share patient health information, according to CoinDesk.

The American University of Beirut Medical Center went live on an Epic EHR Nov. 3, making it the first organization in Lebanon to use Epic.

EHR-related burnout hits some physician specialties more than others, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Meditech acquired a long-time international business affiliate as part of the company's plan to launch Meditech UK, an entity focused on supporting customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

A massive project to digitize Australia's Queensland public hospitals, which includes implementing a new Cerner EMR, is on track to run $256 million over budget, a 42 percent increase from the original cost estimate, according to an audit report reviewed…

Athenahealth filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission detailing its shareholder vote on its proposed acquisition, according to HIStalk.

The acute-care and ambulatory EMR market has made significant progress toward "plug-and-play interoperability," or linking providers to a central national network, according to a KLAS Research report.

An informal group at President Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., was allowed to review the Veterans Affairs Department's $10 billion EHR modernization contract with Cerner, according to recently released emails and documents reviewed by ProPublica.

Chicago-based health IT company Allscripts has confirmed staff layoffs to Becker's Hospital Review.

The individual health record UnitedHealth plans to offer its members and providers already has been tested at three ACOs, CEO David Wichmann told the company's investor conference Nov. 27, according to Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.