Nuance Communications, Inc. of Burlington, Mass. has announced that its PowerScribe for Radiology software suite has been rolled out at 10 of the 15 hospitals that collectively form the Baptist Memorial Health Care network.

Emdeon, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of revenue and payment cycle management solutions for the healthcare industry, has been named the electronic data interchange (EDI) provider for Maryland hospitals by the Maryland Hospital Association.

Wolters Kluwer Health, based in Bridgewater, N.H., has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide prescription and patient-level data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to provide the FDA with insight into the prevalence of prescription drug use in the country.

The InterSystems Corporation of Cambridge, Mass. has announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs has renewed a contract for Four Points Technology, LLC to provide the InterSystems Cache high-performance object database for the VistA electronic health record system.

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced that the ValleyCare Health System in Pleasanton, Calif. is using Fujitsu PalmSecure palm vein authentication technology as part of its new Patient Access Lifetime Match (PALM) patient registration and identification system.

McKesson has signed a distribution agreement with Swissray International, Inc. to sell Swissray’s digital radiography (DR) systems with the company’s Horizon Medical Imaging picture archiving and communication (PACS) system.

The Harris Corporation of Melbourne, Fla. has been awarded a potential three-year, $5.4 million contract to provide programming support and other IT services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

SXC Health Solutions of Lisle, Ill. has announced that its pharmacy benefit management division, informedRx, has signed a five-year agreement with the Health Plan of San Mateo, a San Francisco-based provider of healthcare benefits to 59,000 members.

LYNX Medical Systems, a subsidiary of Picis, has announced the implementation of its E/Point Emergency Department facility charging application at all three Scottsdale Healthcare hospitals in Arizona.