Six recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives:
1. Beaver, Pa.-based Heritage Valley Health System signed a 10-year extension and expansion agreement with Allscripts.
2. Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare extended a long-term agreement with Cerner.
3. Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health will implement an Epic EHR system, investing more than $100 million in the project.
4. Billings (Mont.) Clinic plans to deploy Health Catalyst's Data Operating System to centralize its data analytics operations.
5. New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health will integrate artificial intelligence software from Jvion into its EMR at 15 hospitals in an attempt to decrease avoidable readmissions.
6. New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian teamed up with Splunk to create data analytics tools to help mitigate diversion of controlled substances, including opioids.