Morning Headlines 7/25/22
Oracle EVP Mike Sicilia tells the US Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs that Oracle will move the VA’s Cerner implementation to the cloud and rewrite Cerner’s pharmacy module, completing both tasks within six to nine months.
Pre-Visit Clinical Intake Automation Company Health Note Nabs $17M in Funding Round
Health Note will use a $17 million Series A funding round to expand its market presence and EHR integrations, and invest in additional research and development.
Ascom acquires French software developer Appliware
Ascom acquires Appliware, a France-based developer of long-term care solutions for patient monitoring and alarming.
London NHS trust cancels operations as IT system fails in heatwave
In the UK, IT and telephone system servers at one of NHS’s largest trusts go down as data center cooling systems fail to keep up with a record heat wave.
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