McKesson opens new campus; Allscripts unveils cloud-based interoperability solution & more — 10 health IT key notes

Here are 10 recent news updates on health IT companies.

Healthcare providers can purchase Allscripts' interoperability solution on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform.

Amazon and Merck unveiled the Alexa Diabetes Challenge to explore how voice-command technology can support chronic disease management.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare and GE Healthcare are embarking on a seven-year partnership to improve patient wait times and efficiency of care.

GE Healthcare and eMedApps joined forces to bring a new business continuity solution into GE Healthcare's Centricity EMR.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted IBM a patent for its drug discovery machine learning model.

IBM opened the IBM Watson Health Center in Helsinki, Finland, as part of a five-year collaboration agreement between IBM and Tekes, a Finnish funding agency.

Health Catalyst named Carolyn Wong Simpkins MD, PhD, its chief medical informatics officer and Stanley Pestotnik its vice president of patient safety products.

McKesson hosted a dedication event on April 6 for the grand opening of its new Las Colinas campus in Irving, Texas.

McKesson on April 3 completed its acquisition of CoverMyMeds, a Columbus, Ohio-based provider of electronic prior authorization solutions.

MDLive, a virtual medical and behavioral healthcare provider, appointed Richard Gilbert, MD, president of its medical group.

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