Here are 11 recent news updates on health IT companies.
1. Allscripts released its 2017 full-year earnings results Feb. 15, posting $1.8 billion in total revenue.
2. Allscripts signed a definitive agreement to sell its OneContent business to Hyland Software, the company announced Feb. 15.
3. Allscripts and Cerner proved to be some of the more popular EHR vendors providers across multiple global regions selected for their various healthcare needs, according to a Feb. 12 report released by Black Book Research.
4. Athenahealth discussed the company's financial performance outlook for fiscal year 2018 during its 2018 Investor Summit Feb. 15.
5. Cerner is bringing Surescripts' Real-Time Prescription Benefit tool to its Millennium EHR to provide patient-specific prescription information at the point of care, the companies announced Feb. 21.
6. EpicMD, a telehealth technology platform provider, recently launched a national physician partner selection program.
7. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Holding AG inked a definitive agreement Feb. 15 to purchase Flatiron Health, an oncology-focused startup backed by Google's parent Alphabet.
8. An artificial intelligence algorithm developed by Google Research may be able to predict a patient's risk of heart attack or stroke, according to a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering Feb. 19.
9. MDLive pledged to offer free online behavioral health counseling sessions to those affected by the Feb. 14 shooting at Parkland, Fla.-based Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School through March 31.
10. Almost one week after Nokia said it was beginning a strategic review of its digital health business, a leaked internal memo revealed company officials don't see a future in it.
11. A little more than a month after Allscripts acquired Practice Fusion for $100 million — a fraction of the software company's valuation — Practice Fusion revealed it is ditching its free software business model.