Here's the latest roundup of stories about health IT companies, including Anthenahealth, Cerner and Deep Labs.
1. American Medical Association innovation arm Health2047 unveiled its new community-focused and analytics-driven Medicare Advantage plan, which aims to addresses social determinants of health.
2. Veradigm, Allscripts' payer and life sciences division, formed an agreement to link its ambulatory EHR data with Komodo Health's clinical encounters datasets platform to help researchers develop new ways to reduce disease burden.
3. Cerner is teaming up with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics on a competition that aims to develop ways to use de-identified data to improve patient safety and care.
4. Integrated Regional Laboratories in Florida began notifying around 30,000 patients that their health information may have been exposed in the American Medical Collection Agency data breach.
5. SimplyVital Health, a healthcare-focused blockchain company, agreed Aug. 13 to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $6.3 million to settle allegations about an unauthorized initial coin offering.
6. Deep Labs, a San Francisco-based provider of artificial intelligence systems, announced Aug. 19 the successful completion of a pilot project to help CMS better detect potential fraud and abuse.
7. Simon Mouyal will serve as chief marketing officer of Athenahealth, the Watertown, Mass.-based EHR vendor announced Aug. 19.
8. Starboard Value, the Cerner investor that voted to overhaul part of the EHR vendor’s board in April, decreased its stake in Cerner by 3.1 percent.
9. Technology giant Oracle has filed a lawsuit against blockchain startup CryptoOracle, claiming trademark infringement and cybersquatting.
10. U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is granting $79 million to Accenture, a digital and technology services company, to help drive improvements in health informatics, virtual health and artificial intelligence initiatives.