Here's the latest roundup of stories about health IT companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
1. Amazon, Google and Microsoft are among the big tech companies vying for deals as hospitals and health systems transition to cloud-based data storage.
2. CVS Health is now offering Sleepio, an all-digital insomnia treatment app, to CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management clients.
3. IBM Watson Health formed a co-development agreement with Guerbert, a French medical imaging company, to create artificial intelligence-powered software that can help clinicians diagnose and monitor patients with prostate cancer.
4. Cerner is teaming up with GetWellNetwork, a precision engagement healthcare company, to enhance communication between providers and patients by helping individuals become more active in their treatments and decision-making processes.
5. Facebook has acquired startup CTRL-labs, a New York-based company that designs technology for users to control computers using their brains.
6. Meditech will deploy its web-based EHR system Expanse at Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya.
7. IBM is collaborating with Facebook on digital currency efforts, an executive with the technology giant confirmed to CNBC.
8. Microsoft nominated Emma Walmsley, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, to join its board of directors.
9. Technology startup Nebula Genomics has enhanced its blockchain technology with improved privacy settings for DNA sequencing.
10. Epic implementations among small size healthcare practices appear to be increasing as more practices join local accountable care organizations and affiliate with other organizations that use Epic.