Routine Cerner update causes EHR downtime at Arizona hospital & 16 other health IT notes

Here's the latest roundup of 17 stories about health information technology companies, including Allscripts, Cerner and Google.

1. Uber Health launched a new partnership with Grand Rounds, a San Francisco-based health tech startup connecting patients to care, to provide no-cost rides to medical appointments through employee benefit programs.

2. After disclosing a March data breach that exposed millions of patients' health information, the American Medical Collection Agency has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

3. Researchers from Verily, Alphabet's life sciences arm, developed a deep learning algorithm that can identify diabetic retinopathy with equal or better accuracy than that of trained human experts.

4. Microsoft is the latest technology company to join the Hyperledger community for open source blockchain projects.

5. An IBM algorithm combining machine and deep learning to analyze health records and mammograms was able to predict the development of breast cancer up to 12 months before its onset with nearly 90 percent accuracy.

6. Uber Health, the ridesharing service's HIPAA-compliant offshoot, has partnered with Birmingham, Ala.-based health coaching platform Pack Health to provide free transportation to and from medical appointments for patients with chronic conditions.

7. Google and Paris-based pharmaceutical company Sanofi are developing an Innovation Lab.

8. IBM launched an upgraded version of its enterprise blockchain platform on June 18.

9. Mount Sinai Health System has tapped Burlington, N.C.-based LabCorp to lead the integration of Philips' IntelliSite Pathology Solution into the New York City-based health system's hospitals.

10. By analyzing only the Facebook posts of nearly 1,000 patients, an artificial intelligence algorithm was able to correctly detect 21 separate conditions.

11. Phoenix-based Abrazo Community Health Network's Cerner EHR system was down for three days last week following a routine update performed by the vendor.

12. Google has partnered with startup blockchain company Chainlink to serve as one of the tech giant's Cloud partners.

13. Change Healthcare is again increasing its initial public offering to more than $1 billion after the health technology company raised it to $200 million in May.

14. Flatiron Health, an oncology EHR vendor, has appointed Michael Vasconcelles, MD, as CMO.

15. Uber Health partnered with Carisk, a specialty risk care coordination company, to offer injured workers transportation to and from medical appointments.

16. Electronic health record company Allscripts has purchased ZappRx, a startup that aims to modernize how patients receive prescription medicines.

17. On June 13, IBM, KPMG, Merck and Walmart announced that they have been selected by the FDA to evaluate the use of blockchain for identifying, tracking and tracing prescription drugs.

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