Here are nine recent health information technology vendor contracts and go-lives affecting healthcare organizations.
1. Northwell Health partnered with Conversa Health to launch a personalized chatbot to address misconceptions and concerns in patients scheduled to undergo colonoscopies at two of the New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based health system's hospitals.
2. Woodbury, N.J.-based Inspira Health and Philips announced a $50 million, five-year partnership Dec. 2 to standardize patient monitoring and foster innovation in diagnostic imaging.
3. Alignment Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage insurance company in Orange, Calif., partnered with Uber Health to provide nonemergency medical transportation options for its plan members.
4. Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth is now offering Apple's Health Records application to patients to streamline access to their available medical data
5. San Antonio-based University Health System will allocate $170 million of its fiscal year 2020 budget to transition to an Epic EHR system.
6. Integris Health in Oklahoma City and Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, La., will both deploy Health Catalyst's data analytics solutions to improve cost transparency surrounding patient care.
7. Cleveland Clinic has tapped Vocera, a clinical communication and workflow solutions provider, to streamline communications among care team members at its London hospital.
8. UNC Health Care implemented a mobile application from Gozio Health that helps patients navigate around the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based health system's campuses.
9. Wellesley, Mass.-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Ride Health announced on Dec. 5 a collaboration to offer Medicare Advantage members in the region free nonemergency medical transportation.