Here's the latest roundup of stories about health IT companies, including Apple, Cerner and Google.
1. Athenahealth added BirdEye's customer experience platform to its EHR marketplace program.
2. Medopad, an artificial intelligence startup using data from provider databases and patient devices for remote disease monitoring, raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Bayer's life sciences innovation arm.
3. DNA-testing startup Veritas Genetics experienced a data breach that may have exposed consumers' information.
4. Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort to advance blockchain technologies, announced Nov. 5 that it has launched its Hyperledger Certified Service Provider program.
5. Apple's Health Records feature for iPhone is now available to veterans as part of the technology giant's partnership with Department of Veterans Affairs.
6. Las Vegas-based A-Medicare has launched a new platform that leverages artificial intelligence, blockchain and machine learning to make healthcare and its data more accessible.
7. It's been getting easier for Livongo Health and other health-tech startups to recruit talent despite being down the road from giants such as Apple and Google.
8. Allscripts posted $236 million in bookings for the third quarter of 2019, which ended Sept. 30.
9. Michael Nill, COO at Cerner, will leave his position at the Kansas City, Mo.-based EHR vendor in January, according to a Nov. 1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
10. IBM Watson Health and Aetion codeveloped a tool enabling small and mid-size biopharmaceutical companies to conduct advanced data analysis of real-world evidence to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of new medical treatments.
11. Google Health is looking to improve search functions, both to enhance physicians' abilities to search through medical records as well as the quality of health-related search results presented to consumers across Google and YouTube.
12. Meditech reported $121.2 million in revenue for the third quarter of 2019, which ended Sept. 30.
13. Alphabet, Google's parent company, will acquire Fitbit for approximately $2.1 billion.
14. Apple reported total revenues of $64 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 28, a year-over-year increase of 2 percent, in an earnings report released Oct. 30.