Amazon's cloud may strike deal with Cerner; athenahealth names CFO & more — 10 health IT key notes

Here are 10 recent news updates on health IT companies.

1. Athenahealth named Marc Levine CFO and treasurer, as well as an executive vice president, the company announced Nov. 27.

2. Amazon's cloud business Amazon Web Services plans to partner with Cerner, according to sources familiar with the matter.

3. Change Healthcare entered into a strategic relationship with Google Cloud to support collaborative care and augmented radiology workflows, Change Healthcare announced Nov. 26.

4. GE Healthcare entered into an expanded partnership with Intel to enhance digital imaging capabilities deployed via edge and cloud, GE Healthcare announced Nov. 26.

5. GE Healthcare and Nvidia built upon their 10-year partnership to boost artificial intelligence in GE's medical devices and accelerate healthcare data processing, the companies announced Nov. 26.

6. A team of Google researchers is developing a system that automatically transcribes conversations between physicians and patients during medical visits.

7. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released guidance Nov. 21 urging businesses to act on an alert Intel issued to address a security flaw in its computer chips.

8. Medtronic launched a suite of telehealth solutions to support its national contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for home telehealth devices and services, the company announced Nov. 27.

9. Royal Philips acquired Baltimore-based imaging software startup Analytical Informatics, the company announced Nov. 24.

10. Syapse raised $30 million in Series D funding, the San Francisco-based precision medicine startup announced Nov. 14.

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