Here's the latest roundup of stories about health IT companies, including Cerner, Epic and Google.
1. A team of security researchers found a vulnerability in two versions of GE Healthcare anesthesia and respiratory machines.
2. DNA-testing service Vitagene shut down external access to more than 3,000 user files that were left exposed online for years.
3. Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health is teaming up with Microsoft to build a new high-tech hospital.
4. Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health has partnered with Babyscripts to offer its patients access to the Washington, D.C.-based virtual care company's pregnancy management app.
5. Allscripts company CarePort Health, which provides post-acute outcomes management software to ACOs and hospitals, is teaming up with Georgia Hospital Health Services to provide care coordination solutions to hospitals statewide.
6. IBM announced July 9 that it closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, an open-source cloud software vendor.
7. GE Healthcare has expanded its partnership with Santa Barbara, Calif.-based InTouch Health to integrate the latter's virtual communication features into Mural, GE Healthcare's new telehealth platform.
8. Allscripts is making its patient engagement platform FollowMyHealth available to Microsoft HealthVault users to transition their health data to before Microsoft shuts down its service in November.
9. SnapMD has begun rolling out a new version of its smartphone app, which enables healthcare providers to add telemedicine services to their offerings.
10. Uber's healthcare subsidiary announced July 9 that the company has partnered with blockchain startup Solve.Care.
11. Walmart Labs, the retail giant's San Bruno, Calif.-based technology and innovation arm, has acqui-hired Flocare, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based software company developing an app to streamline scheduling and communication for home healthcare providers.
12. Epic added Patientco, a patient payment technology company, to its App Orchard online marketplace.
13. The U.S. Cyber Command took to Twitter last week to issue a warning about a 2-year-old vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that is being exploited by hackers.
14. Medtronic veteran Tracy Platt will serve as Cerner's new executive vice president and chief human resources officer.
15. Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health will launch Microsoft Azure as well as some of the technology giant's artificial intelligence tools to help manage the health system's electronic health data.
16. The Cerner EHR implementation at Washington's Department of Social and Health Services is currently delayed as the state negotiates its $32 million contract with the EHR vendor.