Saints Medical Center (SMC), a nonprofit healthcare facility based in Lowell, Mass., has entered into an agreement with Zoll Medical, a medical devices and software developer, to have Zoll collaborate and test new product and technology concepts with SMC, including its emergency medical service.

Single sign-on (SSO) satisfaction scores continue to outperform many other market segments, although scores have decreased somewhat over the past two years due to unforeseen complexities with SSO systems, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.

St. Tammany Parish Hospital (STPH) in Covington, La., has selected RelayHealth as its partner to build a community-wide health information exchange (HIE) connecting its physicians.

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.