April 2, 2009 — With the Medicare and Medicaid incentives for health information technology use announced, almost 70 percent of U.S. hospitals are only two steps or less away from having the health IT applications necessary to deliver the likely objectives of ‘meaningful use’ for the electronic medical record, according to the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM).

April 2, 2009 – Expanding its capabilities to deliver complete medical imaging and healthcare solutions, Canon U.S.A. Inc. today announced that the company has acquired Virtual Imaging Inc., of Deerfield Beach, FL, as Canon positions itself for growth in the medical imaging and healthcare marketplace.

April 2, 2009 - AMICAS Inc. said today it successfully completed the tender offer by its wholly-owned subsidiary AMICAS Acquisition Corp. for shares of common stock of Emageon Inc. The tender offer expired at 12:00 midnight (Eastern Time) on Wednesday, April 1, 2009.

April 1, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare is set to demonstrate the benefits of workflow automation on the new release of its premier general imaging platform, the ACUSON S2000 ultrasound system, at the annual conference of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM 2009), this week.

April 1, 2009 - McKesson Corp. reported on Tuesday, March 31, that its Executive Vice President and President of McKesson Technology Solutions Pamela J. Pure departed from the company, effective March 30. The company did not give any explanation, and no replacement was named.