BURLINGTON, Mass.--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced it has achieved an industry-first milestone in sharing 3 billion medical images through the Nuance PowerShareTM Network. This reflects steady growth of approximately 30 percent each year as the technology gains more widespread adoption in hospitals and facilities securely sharing patient medical images using the cloud.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 21, 2014 -- Baystate Health of Springfield, Mass., has selected Premier, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:PINC) data warehouse and business intelligence platform, PremierConnect(R) Enterprise, to support the development of innovative solutions within its new Health Informatics & Technology Innovation Center.

Houston, TX, August 14, 2014 -- Healthconnect announced today that Baylor College of Medicine has joined the regional health information exchange (HIE). Baylor’s entry is an important step in the integration of health information technologies that enable clinical faculty within an academic setting to enhance transitions of care by easily communicating with both referring physicians and patients.

 August 12, 2014 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, GREEN BAY, Wis.--Healtheway, the non-profit, public-private collaborative that supports the eHealth Exchange, and IOD Incorporated, a leading provider of integrated health information management (HIM) solutions for hospitals, healthcare systems and clinics, today announced that IOD PRISM 6.2 is now recognized as an eHealth Exchange validated system.

Albany, NY, August 12, 2014 -- Health informatics is defined as the knowledge, skills and tools that enable the information to be collected, managed, used and shared for supporting the delivery of healthcare services and promoting health. Health informatics is one of the fastest growing segments of information technology and computer science.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – August 12, 2014 – DataMotion™, an experienced health information service provider (HISP) with the industry’s leading record of customer deployments and Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU2) attestations, today announced that the MEDITECH Solutions Group within Dell has added DataMotion Direct secure messaging to its industry-leading portfolio of services.

DENVER, Aug. 6, 2014--More than 70 providers at the Boulder Medical Center, a multispecialty group that also operates an urgent care clinic, are now using health information exchange, in addition to an advanced electronic medical record system, to coordinate care for more than 200,000 annual patient visits.Through CORHIO's secure electronic network, Boulder Medical Center doctors are now receiving laboratory results from hospitals and labs around the state without having to wait for faxes or other paper-based methods of communication. This is reducing patient wait times, helping doctors make faster and more accurate clinical decisions, and saving staff time previously spent tracking down patients' medical records.

BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 5, 2014--Today, Access My Records, Inc. announced its patent-pending technology to provide hospitals, HIEs and healthcare software vendors with a "low-touch" solution to "auto-create" a patient portal originated from standardized HL7 patient documents (structured CCDs or unstructured CDAs)  sent over Secure Direct Messaging.