Here are six recent news updates on key health IT companies.
1. athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic and NextGen Healthcare are among the first five vendors to adopt the Carequality Interoperability Framework.
2. Over the next three years, Microsoft will donate $1 billion in cloud services to nonprofit groups and university researchers.
3. Tuba City (Ariz.) Regional Health Care Corp. has selected Allscripts Sunrise and the Allscripts Care Director revenue cycle system.
4. Since Epic moved its headquarters from Madison, Wis., to Verona, Wis., in 2005, the health IT giant has given back to its new community through grants focused on "at-risk" populations.
5. A new partnership between Cerner and Infusion Express, an intravenous therapy company in Overland Park, Kan., deems Infusion Express a preferred provider of IV therapy services for Cerner's health plan members.
6. Despite reporting its 14th consecutive quarter of falling revenues in October, IBM received the most U.S. patents in 2015 for the 23rd year in a row in 2015, beating out Google, Microsoft, Intel and Samsung.
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