Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending April 30:
OpenNotes honored for liberating data despite physician pushback
Healthcare IT News ~ Jessica Davis ~ 27/04/2017
The note sharing platform won the Health Data Liberator Award at Health Datapalooza for its innovative approach to data sharing.
Open source experts to VA: Keep VistA, it can be fixed
Healthcare IT News ~ Jessica Davis ~ 27/04/2017
By advancing the EHR code base, rather than picking a commercial EHR, Veterans Affairs can modernize its proprietary software at a fraction of the cost, officials say.