Morning Headlines 1/13/20
Teladoc Health to acquire InTouch Health
Teladoc will acquire telehealth platform vendor InTouch Health for $600 million in cash and TDOC shares.
Inside Google’s Quest for Millions of Medical Records
The Wall Street Journal reports that Cerner passed on Google’s offer of $250 million in incentives to use its cloud storage system because Google wouldn’t fully divulge its plans for using Cerner-stored patient EHR data, leading Cerner to choose Amazon instead.
SCI Solutions Acquires Tonic Health
Digital engagement technology vendor SCI Solutions acquires Tonic Health, which offers a mobile patient intake, survey, and payments platform.
A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings
Researchers determine that lax cybersecurity at hundreds of healthcare facilities have left over 1 billion medical images exposed on the Internet.
HCA Healthcare Acquires Technology and Analytics Company Valify
HCA Healthcare acquires purchased services analytics vendor Valify.
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