The following health IT vendor contracts and go-lives were reported during the past week.
1. Arlington-based Texas Health Aetna offered north Texas employers access to an ER Doc virtual care app created by Denver-based healthcare text messaging platform CirrusMD.
2. Tacoma, Wash.-based Madigan Army Medical Center will go live on the U.S. Department of Defense's Cerner EHR system, called MHS Genesis, Oct. 21.
3. The Urbana-based University of Illinois Health board of trustees voted to move forward in the contracting process for a $101 million Epic EHR implementation.
4. Kansas City-based University of Kansas Health System deployed a number of Nuance Communications' voice-driven solutions.
5. The Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute entered into a research collaboration with Tempus, a health tech company focused on personalized oncology care.