Here are six recent news updates on key health IT companies.
1. Cerner and Boston Children's Hospital are launching a strategic initiative focused on interoperability in pediatric care.
2. Hays (Kan.) Medical Center strengthened its partnership with MEDITECH by upgrading to the company's Web Electronic Health Record.
3. Al Jalila Children's Specialty Hospital, a pediatric hospital in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, has partnered with Cerner to implement its Millennium EHR.
4. Vicennes, Ind.-based Good Samaritan Hospital released a report following the hospital's recent implementation of Epic's $17 million EHR system. The new EHR system reportedly improves the hospital's partnership with Evansville, Ind.-based Deaconess Hospital, according to hospital officials, as the two institutions are now able to share patient information with each other.
5. IBM has partnered with Best Doctors, a medical information services company connecting individuals facing medical treatment decisions with physicians, to offer U.S.-based employees access to IBM Watson's oncology services for insights on cancer treatment options.
6. 3M Health Information Systems, a business of 3M, and Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company, entered into a strategic agreement to develop new population health measurement technology.