Merge Healthcare successfully closed the merger agreement with Amicas Wednesday, creating a medical imaging software and health IT technologies provider.

Vish Sankaran, program director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health ITs Federal Health Architecture,  is leaving the program within the next several weeks to seek other opportunities.

RadNet, a provider of fixed-site outpatient diagnostic imaging services through a network of 185 outpatient imaging centers, has acquired three multi-modality facilities from the Sonix Medical Resources bankruptcy proceeding in New York.

Capsule Technologies and GE Healthcare have formed a partnership, in which Capsule will integrate its medical device connectivity system with GE's Centricity Enterprise, Perinatal and Perioperative suites.

Boston Scientific has launched the Kinetix Guidewire, an interventional device that is used during PCI, which is equipped with a micro-cut nitinol sleeve.

The Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland has placed the first order for Sectras SyMRI Suite software.

In an animal model, irreversible electroporation was found to be a fast, safe and potent ablative method, causing complete tissue death by means of apoptosis, according to a study published in the May edition of Radiology.

Health IT company Hyland Software has expanded its customer base for its OnBase enterprise content management software suite by three.