Here are 11 recent news updates on key health IT companies.
1. McKesson's profit for the first quarter 2016, ended June 30, 2015, totaled $576 million, a 43 percent increase from the $403 million profit posted for the same time period last year.
2.The Department of Defense announced yesterday the bid team comprised of Cerner, Leidos and Accenture won the agency's contract to overhaul the military's health records, the biggest federal IT contract since HealthCare.gov.
3. Iron River, Mich.-based NORTHSTAR Health System will go live on Epic's EHR platform next month.
4. Bend (Ore.) Memorial Clinic's 14 month transition to Epic is scheduled to be complete Aug. 6.
5. IBM and CVS Health have partnered to pair predictive analytics with IBM Watson's cognitive computing platform with an aim to transform care management services for chronic disease patients.
6. Cerner and athenahealth were ranked among the best mobile EHR apps in a Black Book survey.
7. UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass., announced plans to adopt Epic's EHR platform, a project slated to cost $700 million over the next 10 years.
8. The two newest office buildings at Cerner's Trails Campus are expected to be complete by the end of 2016.
9. athenahealth posted a 21 percent increase in total revenue for the three months ended June 30.
10. athenahealth recently opened a new facility on its campus in Belfast, Maine, and the company is seeking to continue expanding its employee base there.
11. Cerner introduced a new tool to help detect the risk of patient falls.
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