Here are 10 recent news updates on health IT companies.
1. Allscripts launched an initiative to bring real-time pricing information into prescribing workflows.
2. Sixty-eight percent of administrators and clinicians using the McKesson Paragon EHR don't believe Allscripts' acquisition of the company will improve or worsen the EHR system, according to a KLAS Research report.
3. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic now offers first aid advice through Amazon's digital voice assistant, Alexa.
4. Apple seeks a software engineer with a background in counseling or psychology to help design functions for its digital voice assistant, Siri.
5. British Columbia, Canada, Minister of Health Adrian Dix ordered a second independent review of a controversial Cerner EHR implementation at Vancouver Island Health Authority.
6. Tacoma, Wash.-based Madigan Army Medical Center will go live on the U.S. Department of Defense's Cerner-based EHR system, called MHS Genesis, Oct. 21.
7. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic developed an online symptoms assessment tool for patients to access through Epic's patient portal, MyChart.
8. Epic and Doximity, a social network for U.S. physicians and advanced practice clinicians, joined forces to improve patient-provider communication.
9. Many IT industry leaders rank IBM's blockchain technology the strongest, with more than four in 10 placing the company in first place, according to a Juniper Research report.
10. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted the startup Pear Therapeutics to market the first medical app aiding in the treatment of substance use disorders.