Orbita raises $9M; Building voice chatbots and search for healthcare, including provider focused solutions with EHR integration
IBM Watson Health stops offering 3 of its analytics products, offers transition path and support to 3 complimentary Vizient products
OptumHealth acquires post-acute care management platform naviHealth for undisclosed sum; naviHealth to continue operating as a standalone entity
Veterans Affairs to use Palantir's Gotham software, best known for law enforcement applications, to track and analyze COVID-19 outbreaks and coordinate supply chains
Microsoft launches 'Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare': A suite of cloud tools, including a FHIR server, specifically geared for medical use
BurstIQ, Hitachi, and American Heart Association launch COVID-19 Data Challenge; Offering prizes to those who can identify meaningful links between COVID-19 and other conditions/SDOH
Republican senators introduce bill that would increase privacy protections for consumer data related to COVID-19 contact tracing; Bill is unlikely to get passed
Intel launches NIH-funded collaboration with Penn Medicine to create distributed, privacy-focused federated learning network for training AI models to detect brain tumors
Change Healthcare buys back pharmacy unit, eRx Network, for $213M, sells analytics division, Connected Analytics, to Kaufman Hall
