From acquisitions to partnerships to mergers to new offerings, here's the latest roundup of stories about health IT companies, including Google, Epic and Apple.
- Google began dissolving its health division as its chief, David Feinberg, MD, departed for Cerner.
- Verily, Google's sister company and a subsidiary of Alphabet, acquired SignalPath, a clinical trial management system.
- Semafone, a data security platform for patient payment processing, joined Epic's App Orchard online marketplace.
- Apple pulled back work on a key app project within its health division that lets employees log their health data and connect with clinicians who are part of AC Wellness, the tech giant's physician group partner.
- Private equity firm Nordic Capital said it will acquire Inovalon, an analytics company used by most of the top 25 U.S. health plans and top 25 provider systems.
- WebMD launched an offering that allows patients to search for providers and schedule appointments in a new collaboration with symplr.
- Mental health and meditation app Headspace announced plans to merge with on-demand digital mental health service Ginger.
- Olive launched an in-house ventures studio seeking to create companies and products for the healthcare industry.
- Molecular information company Foundation Medicine teamed up with Epic to add genomic profiling and other testing services to Epic's EHR systems.
- Allscripts sold off its precision medicine platform 2bPrecise to AccessDX Holdings.
- Uber Health said it will provide rides for Texas Medicaid participants to and from medical appointments through a new partnership.
- Google shut down Streams, a mobile app developed to help clinicians track patients' conditions, just two years after finalizing its acquisition.