The following health IT vendor contracts and go-lives were reported within the past week.
1. HealthTap, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based virtual care network, launched new services in Spanish.
2. On March 11, University Hospital Kerry in Ireland went live on its Maternity EHR, making it the second hospital in the country to go live with the Maternal & Newborn Clinical Management System.
3. Purchase, N.Y.-based Teladoc, a telehealth provider, partnered with Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based Accolade, an on-demand healthcare concierge service.
4. University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sealed a deal with Verona, Wis.-based Epic and will deploy Epic's EHR system in 2019.
5. Google has developed a deep learning algorithm that detects breast cancer in pathology slides.
6. Omega Healthcare Management Services acquired WhiteSpace Health, a healthcare analytics company.
7. Wichita, Kan.-based Vigilias Telehealth is implementing Atlanta-based Azalea Health's cloud-based practice management, EHR and revenue cycle management services.
8. Epic officially launched its "App Orchard," an app store it first announced two years ago.
9. Munich Leukemia Laboratory, a leukemia and lymphoma diagnostic and research lab in Germany, joined forces with IBM and Illumina.
10. Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System is expanding its partnership with Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier to incorporate pharmacy clinical surveillance and analytics.
11. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago tapped MD Interconnect's secure messaging service, called RapidConnect, to streamline clinician communication.