McKesson opens new campus; Allscripts unveils cloud-based interoperability solution & more — 10 health IT key notes

Here are 10 recent news updates on health IT companies.

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Healthcare providers can purchase Allscripts’ interoperability solution on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform.

Amazon and Merck unveiled the Alexa Diabetes Challenge to explore how voice-command technology can support chronic disease management.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare and GE Healthcare are embarking on a seven-year partnership to improve patient wait times and efficiency of care.

GE Healthcare and eMedApps joined forces to bring a new business continuity solution into GE Healthcare’s Centricity EMR.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted IBM a patent for its drug discovery machine learning model.

IBM opened the IBM Watson Health Center in Helsinki, Finland, as part of a five-year collaboration agreement between IBM and Tekes, a Finnish funding agency.

Health Catalyst named Carolyn Wong Simpkins MD, PhD, its chief medical informatics officer and Stanley Pestotnik its vice president of patient safety products.

McKesson hosted a dedication event on April 6 for the grand opening of its new Las Colinas campus in Irving, Texas.

McKesson on April 3 completed its acquisition of CoverMyMeds, a Columbus, Ohio-based provider of electronic prior authorization solutions.

MDLive, a virtual medical and behavioral healthcare provider, appointed Richard Gilbert, MD, president of its medical group.

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