Here are 11 recent news updates on health IT companies.
1. Allscripts closed its acquisition of McKesson's Enterprise Information Solutions business Oct. 2.
2. Amazon spent between $50 million to $100 million to acquire a 3-D body scanning startup called Body Labs.
3. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin, MD, said the VA will award Cerner a contract for the health system's EHR within the next month.
4. Hospital and physician group executives ranked Cerner the No. 1 EHR vendor for end-to-end IT outsourcing solutions, according to a Black Book report.
5. A U.S. jury reevaluated the $940 million in damages Tata Consultancy Services, a software services exporter, was ordered to pay Epic after the Mumbai, India-based company was found guilty of stealing trade secrets.
6. Epic is the No. 1 EHR vendor for hospitals participating in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program, according to ONC data gathered in July.
7. UC San Diego entered into a multiyear project with IBM Research to establish the Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Living Center on the university's campus, IBM announced Sept. 28.
8. Nuance Communications, a voice and language solutions provider, launched an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant solution targeted toward clinicians Sept. 27.
9. Chicago-based Outcome Health, a health IT provider, plans to lay off an undisclosed number of employees, just days after announcing it would hire an additional 2,000 workers over the next five years.
10. Samsung Electronics America entered into a partnership with TigerText, a clinical communications solutions provider, to improve communication among care teams, the company announced Sept. 28.
11. Brian McAndrews, former CEO of Pandora, the media company known for applying machine learning to song selection, was appointed to the board of directors at Teladoc Sept. 18.