Nov. 3, 2009 (PR Newswire) --

BOSTON, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMICAS, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMCS), a leader in image and information management solutions, today announced that it has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2009 North American Growth Leadership of the Year Award in Imaging Informatics. According to Frost & Sullivan, AMICAS captured the largest market share in the North American image and information management market. In 2009, AMICAS more than doubled its market share to over ten percent through a combination of organic growth and its strategic acquisition of Emageon Inc.

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"AMICAS is honored to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the 2009 growth leader," said Stephen Kahane MD, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of AMICAS. "AMICAS is a leading, independent provider of image and information management solutions for healthcare - and this award directly reflects our commitment to delivering innovative, high-ROI solutions that enable our customers to realize their quality and productivity goals."

"Frost & Sullivan commends AMICAS for its success in gaining market share and its acquisition of Emageon," said Nadim Daher, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "In addition to expanding AMICAS' solutions portfolio with additional leading-edge, innovative solutions developed by Emageon, this move further strengthens the company's market position as a provider of enterprise-wide image management and related systems, expands its market coverage to a larger segment of North American imaging providers, and also provides the opportunity for robust financial growth and continued success."

"AMICAS is a very focused imaging IT company that is in a great competitive position in the industry to provide the imaging components of healthcare IT solutions in conjunction with EMR vendors," said Mr. Daher. "As EMR adoption accelerates, the ability to offer an enterprise-wide, vendor-neutral infrastructure with viewing toolsets for multiple image-intensive specialties will help AMICAS provide the imaging component of the EMR."

AMICAS' imaging EMR solution is proven in installations at many major health systems across the country. Each of these health systems has multiple departmental PACS solutions - many of them from different vendors - that use the single viewer provided by AMICAS' vendor-neutral infrastructure. AMICAS ECM(TM) helps provide excellent service to clinicians throughout the healthcare system while limiting the total cost of ownership from an IT point of view.