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

Hospital exec quits, compares $764m upgrade to Challenger disaster
New York Post ~ Michael Gartland ~ 16/03/2016

A senior official was so worried a new $764 million medical records system for the municipal hospital system was launching too early that he resigned, comparing it to the disastrous space shuttle Challenger launch in 1986.

Industry leaders question prevalence of information blocking
Health Data Management ~ Greg Slabodkin ~ 17/03/2016

Solving the issue of information blocking is one of the key tenets of federal initiatives to promote interoperability, but some industry leaders question how significant of an impediment the practice is in healthcare today.