February 24, 2009 - McKesson Health Solutions, a business unit of McKesson Corp., today announced the launch of an Uncompensated Care Management Program, designed to decrease the amount of uncompensated care provided within hospitals.

February 24, 2009 – Two U.S. healthcare facilities recently signed multiyear contracts with Siemens Healthcare for installation of Siemens’ Soarian Health Information System (HIS) platform. An additional facility also signed a multiyear contract for Soarian and Siemens’ MedSeries4, another fully Web-based HIS designed to meet the needs of community hospitals.

February 23, 2009 - AMICAS Inc. said today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Emageon Inc.

February 23, 2009 – Grisell Memorial Hospital, a critical access hospital located in Ransom, KS, selected NovaPACS technologies to help improve reading, workflow and save money. The rural hospital selected NovaPACS because it offered a complete, Web-based PACS that could be installed in less than a month and was affordable.

February 23, 2009 – The Carol Milgard Breast Center, a women’s breast care center established by the three largest providers of breast imaging services in the Tacoma, WA-region, officially opens today and will offer state-of-the-art diagnostics and treatments.

February 20, 2009 - The Academy of Molecular Imaging recommends that PET imaging facilities closely monitor NOPR communications and be prepared for coverage changes on the date the final coverage decision is issued.

February 20, 2009 - iCAD Inc. said today peer-reviewed data on its SecondLook computer-aided detection (CAD) technology, published in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, included 123 cancers detected with full-field digital mammography (FFDM).