Here are 14 health information technology notes:
1. Although the company has faced backlash over the past six months for its popularity among young people, e-cigarette maker Juul is considering tapping into digital health.
2. IBM released its first quarter earnings on April 16, showing an acceleration in cloud revenue growth even as the tech giant's overall revenue dipped.
3. The City of Roseville Employees' Retirement System filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Apple shareholders, alleging the iPhone developer violated federal securities laws.
4. Although Cerner shares have seen a double digit increase this year — 20 percent — the EHR developer is expected to see even bigger growth.
5. The latest joint effort from the American Medical Association and Sling Health, a student-run biotechnology incubator based at Washington University in St. Louis, is an online database that will pair physicians' insights about clinical challenges with developers of cutting-edge medical technology.
6. Microsoft emailed an unknown number of users April 12 across its Outlook, MSN and Hotmail platforms alerting them of a data breach that occurred between Jan. 1 and March 28.
7. While Amazon announced Alexa was HIPAA-compliant earlier this month, the voice assistant is years away from connecting patients to physicians.
8. Samsung SDS and Tech Mahindra have partnered to collaborate on a global blockchain network.
9. Blockchain developer Augusta HiTech launched its first blockchain-powered EHR platform, which streamlines data sharing between patients and emergency medical services.
10. Google is in the processes of dismantling a panel that aims at reviewing its artificial intelligence solutions in healthcare.
11. Ovia Health, a developer of fertility, pregnancy and parenting-tracking apps, shares user data with employers and insurers as a way to monitor employees' health.
12. Uber released its S-1 form April 11 in preparation to go public.
13. Cerner and naviHealth, a provider of post-acute care management, have extended their partnership to create a new offering for Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced program.
14. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Theranos, a biotech company that shuttered last year, five patents in March and April.
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