Pulse+IT's weekly weekend round-up of international health IT and eHealth news:

Epic, athenahealth, other EHR vendors sign on for Carequality Interoperability Framework
Healthcare IT News ~ Mike Milliard ~ 21/01/2016

Barely a month after its launch, the Carequality Interoperability Framework devised by The Sequoia Project has already signed up five health IT heavy-hitters to be the first to implement its data exchange principles: athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare and Surescripts.

No smartcard' Spine apps on way: HSCIC
Digital Health News ~ Rebecca McBeth ~ 21/01/2016

NHS staff will soon be able to get mobile access to the NHS Spine without the use of a smartcard.