TopMarketingCompanies.com, an online directory of digital marketing companies, released a ranking of the top 13 marketing schools in the country June 1.

Change Healthcare acquired Fort Worth, Texas-based pharmacy software company PDX, according to a June 1 news release.

Here's the latest roundup of stories about health information technology companies, including Microsoft, Google and Optum. 

Vindell Washington, MD, chief clinical officer of Google sister company Verily, will serve as interim CEO of virtual diabetes clinic Onduo.

NASA selected eight manufacturers to produce its new ventilator designed by agency engineers to specifically treat COVID-19 patients.

Jerome Labat will oversee Cerner's technology initiatives and cloud-enabled software-as-a-service platforms as the EHR vendor's new chief technology officer.

Initially launched by tech giants including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, the COVID-19 Technology Task Force is now moving from its "messy beginning" and reprioritizing its focus to combat the pandemic, the group's new leader told the Wall Street Journal. 

Philadelphia-based Roundtrip received a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes for Health on June 1 to study the relationship between transportation access and health outcomes among individuals with opioid use disorder.

Tanya Arthur, senior vice president and CIO of Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, is working diligently to support caregivers as well as an aging population during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Livongo proposed a $400 million offering of convertible senior notes due in 2025.

UPMC has invested millions in its digital health and entrepreneurial efforts through UPMC Enterprises since inception, according to the health system's first quarter earnings report.

Houston Methodist received a $130,000 donation to continue its work in critical care innovations for the post COVID-19 world.

Health departments for at least 12 states have inflated or deflated the number of individuals who tested positive for COVID-19, in some cases to meet the criteria for "safe" reopening sooner, according to a report by Politico.

Over the past decade, hospital EHR systems' ability to detect harmful medication ordering errors has improved from 54 percent in 2009 to 66 percent in 2018, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 

Google is rescinding thousands of job offers for contractors and temporary workers as its advertising business slows, according to The New York Times.

Staff members at a VA nursing home in Pennsylvania reported they were asked to change residents' medical records to hide staffing shortages and make patients seem healthier than they were, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Most health providers, health IT startups and academic organizations agree that economic uncertainty will be the largest challenge to health IT innovation in the coming year, according to a recent Venrock report.

The Tennessee state health department will stop providing names and addresses of COVID-19 patients to first responders on May 31, according local CBS affiliate WTVF.

Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health in June will roll out new high-tech sanitizing devices that use ultraviolet light to disinfect hospital rooms across its eight-hospital network.

Microsoft has been on the forefront of supporting healthcare delivery and services during the pandemic, and on May 20 rolled out its cloud for healthcare offering.