Here are eight recent news updates on major health IT and technology companies:
1. Allscripts rebranded its payer and life sciences division under the name "Veradigm."
2. Allscripts ranked as the top integrated EHR, practice management and revenue cycle management platform for health systems and integrated delivery networks in a Black Book Market Research survey.
3. Amazon's cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, added three machine learning tools to its set of "HIPAA-eligible" services.
4. Private equity firm Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital, an affiliate of hedge fund Elliott Management, agreed to buy athenahealth for an estimated $5.7 billion in cash.
5. Athenahealth released its earnings results for the third quarter of 2018, posting $329.5 million in revenue.
6. Exact Sciences Corp., a molecular diagnostics company based in Madison, Wis., entered into an agreement with Epic.
7. Alphabet's artificial intelligence arm DeepMind revealed plans to bring its health business into Google's newly formed health unit.
8. A team of Google researchers and public health experts are working on an artificial intelligence model that detects the spread of foodborne illnesses on the city level.