Morning Headlines 9/4/19

ONC Awards The Sequoia Project a Cooperative Agreement for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement to Support Advancing Nationwide Interoperability of Electronic Health Information

ONC chooses The Sequoia Project as Recognized Coordinating Entity for TEFCA, where it will manage the Common Agreement component of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.

Black Book’s Annual State of Global EHR Research Reveals Adoption Trends and Top-Rated Vendors Across World Regions

A Black Book review of global EHR usage finds that Allscripts outperforms other vendors in the UK, Australia, and Canada in getting implementations finished on time and budget.

Cerner grows its UK presence through first-of-type partnership with leading private provider

Mayo Clinic prepares to open its first clinic in the UK in collaboration with Cerner customer Oxford University Clinic.

When Apps Get Your Medical Data, Your Privacy May Go With It

Citing a lack of transparent privacy protections, the AMA, AHA, and other healthcare groups request changes to proposed HHS rules that would require hospitals to share medical records with patients via their smartphone apps.