Nuance Communications has made available Dragon Medical Mobile Recorder on the iTunes App Store.

Epic was named the top-ranked overall software vendor in the 2010 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services report. Picis and Philips took second and third spots, respectively, in the report.

Six of the nation's leading healthcare systemsCleveland Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Denver Health, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare and Mayo Clinic will join the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in a collaboration to improve healthcare quality while reducing costs.

With the help of progressive managers and IT pros, radiology and other specialties can leave the information age behind and start leveraging data to make models and predictions, empowering medical practices to enter the age of analytics, according to a presentation given Nov. 29 at the 96th annual scientific meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

By unanimous consent, the U.S. Senate has passed legislation that averts a 25 percent Medicare payment cut to physicians that was scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2011.

Health reform will require hospitals and physicians to engage in more intense levels of collaboration and information sharing; however, both groups must overcome trust and IT issues, according to a survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has unveiled Healthy People 2020, the new 10-year goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention in the U.S., and myHealthyPeople, a new challenge for technology application developers.

Orion Health has added a modular suite of components to its health information exchange (HIE) tools, allowing healthcare organizations to customize their exchanges.