Governor David A. Paterson has awarded $105 million in grants to 19community-based health IT projects, to help guide medical decisions andsupport the delivery of more coordinated, patient-centered care.

Nuance Communications, a supplier of speech solutions, has releasedNuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Division’s Veriphy-Ready HL7 IntegrationServer.

The Health Care Notification Network (HCNN), a network to deliver drug safety alerts online to U.S. physicians, was launched Tuesday, replacing a widely criticized and decades-old paper- and mail-based system.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell signed an executive order Thursday tocreate the Pennsylvania Health Information Exchange, which willprovide the IT architecture necessary to support interoperable EHRs andelectronic prescribing across the state.

Radianse has debuted new receivers that work with hospitals' existingWi-Fi networks for a real-time location system installation free ofdust or other disruption to care.

Scott Wallace, president and CEO of the National Alliance for HealthInformation Technology since 2003, has resigned, and the board ofdirectors at the Alliance is considering what changes are needed in theorganization.

Cambridge Consultants has debuted its Vena platform, a softwaresolution on a single chip that allows medical devices to transmit datawirelessly.

Royal Philips Electronics will acquire TOMCAT Systems, a developer ofcardio-vascular information systems (CVIS) that collect and aggregatedata relative to the cardiac care of patients to give a patient-centricpresentation of data to care givers such as doctors and nurses.