Here are 15 recent news updates on key health IT companies.
1. Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, Epic and McKesson are among vendors participating in pilots to allow individuals to share their health data as part of the government's Precision Medicine Initiative.
2. McKesson signed definitive agreements to acquire two oncology companies, with the two transactions totaling $1.2 billion.
3. The University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City selected Cerner's HealtheIntent population health management platform.
4. In less than three years, Allscripts' open application programming interfaces have exchanged data more than one billion times.
5. Cerner and McKesson are among the first of CommonWell Health Alliance's members to deploy the alliance' cross-vendor interoperability services.
6. Genelex's YouScript Precision Prescribing software will be integrated into the Epic EHR.
7. IBM Watson's three new application program interfaces available to developers boost the supercomputer's emotional and visual capabilities.
8. With the upcoming launch of a new product, eClinicalWorks is making moves into the acute care market.
9. Columbia, S.C.-based Palmetto Health leveraged Cerner's health information exchange solution to connect to the Georgia Regional Academic Community Health Information Exchange.
10. The White House selected former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano to help lead a new panel tasked with creating policy recommendations for governmental cybersecurity initiatives.
11. As hospitals and healthcare systems consider purchasing options, Epic and Cerner continue to lead the pack in EHR mindshare in 2016, according to a new report from research firm peer60.
12. Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System, based in Mattoon, Ill., plans to go live on the Cerner EHR this fall.
13. Over the next five years, South Georgia Medical Center plans to invest $50 million in a new Epic EHR.
14. In fiscal year 2015, Allscripts shrunk its revenue loss and experienced flat revenue, but bookings grew 20 percent compared to the previous year.
15. North by Northeast Community Health Center in Portland, Ore., announced the successful roll out of its new Epic EHR.
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