Here's the latest roundup of stories about health IT companies, including Cerner, Epic and Microsoft.

Children's Hospital of Colorado in Aurora began notifying 2,553 patients of a recent employee email phishing incident that may have exposed their private information.

Multiple employee email accounts from Freeport, Ill.-based FHN Memorial Hospital were hacked in February, according to a report in the Journal Standard.

Data drove New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health's ability to respond to the pandemic earlier this year, and it will rely on more sophisticated data analytics this fall as it prepares for another surge of COVID-19 cases.

Revenue cycle management services provider R1 announced Aug. 3 it has finalized its acquisition of Cerner's RevWorks services business.

Allscripts, Cerner and Meditech posted their respective financial performances for the second quarter of 2020, all reporting revenue declines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Meditech posted $115.8 million in revenue for the second quarter of 2020, down 3 percent from the same time period last year.

Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate Regence has data-sharing arrangements with two health systems that aim to better coordinate care between its members and their providers.

Some rural Louisiana parish officials who received federally protected information on COVID-19 cases from the state's health department misused the sensitive data and violated HIPAA, the health department said in a report in The Advocate.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that lack of reliable data collection has led to artificially low numbers of coronavirus cases reported in California's Bay Area.