The Minnesota Health Information Exchange (MN HIE) has signed an agreement to provide e-prescribing and patient clinical information to Courage Center of Minnesota, a rehabilitation and resource center.

Covisint, a Compuware company, has signed an agreement with Vermont Blueprint for Health, an organization that is seeking to improve the healthcare system statewide. 

The European Union has awarded researchers at Delft University of Technology a grant of EUR3 million ($4.1 million USD) to pursue a research proposal for developing a quantitative method on MRI for assessing Crohn's disease.

Russells Hall Hospital in England has installed Siemens Healthcare's Magnetom Verio 3T MRI and inked a 15-year IT service contract with the company.

Baptist Health South Florida, a healthcare system serving communities in southern Florida, has selected IOS Health Systems for its Physician EHR Donation Program.

Maryland's highest court, the Court of Appeals, has affirmed a lower court ruling that prohibits physicians from referring patients for imaging procedures conducted by members of that referring physician's group.

 Royal Philips Electronics reported a net income of EUR465 million ($635.3 million USD) in the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of EUR205 million ($280.1 million USD) compared with fourth quarter of 2009, and sales within Philips Healthcare assisted its parent company to a successful quarter.

IT company Harris has been awarded a $10.6 million, one-year contract by the U.S. Information Systems Engineering Command to upgrade the communications and IT networks at 23 U.S. Army medical treatment facilities.