EHRs

The Urbana-based University of Illinois Health board of trustees has voted to move forward in the contracting process for a $101 million Epic EHR implementation, the hospital confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic teamed up with National Decision Support Co., which develops clinical decision support solutions, to create CareSelect Lab.

Epic and Doximity, a social network for U.S. physicians and advanced practice clinicians, joined forces to improve patient-provider communication.

Allscripts certified Inflexxion's PainCAS as part of the Allscripts Developer Program. PainCAS is a pain and opioid risk assessment tool.

Tacoma, Wash.-based Madigan Army Medical Center will go live on the U.S. Department of Defense's EHR system, called MHS Genesis, Oct. 21, according to The Northwest Guardian.

The EHR Association fired back at a Health Affairs blog post suggesting federal agencies use HIPAA regulations to crack down on information blocking.

Nineteen percent of healthcare professionals rated the return on investment for EHRs as "terrible," according to a Health Catalyst survey.

Allscripts launched an initiative to bring real-time pricing information into prescribing workflows.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic developed an online symptoms assessment tool for patients to access through Epic's patient portal, MyChart.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri in St. Louis said it stopped covering outpatient MRIs and CT scans at hospitals without prior authorization due to "enormous" price variations, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.