MARCH 25, 2009 – St. Joseph Hospital (SJH) in Nashua, NH, has expanded its relationship with GE Healthcare through the selection of Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR) version 9.0 to enable its physicians to provide better, more coordinated patient care.

GE Healthcare's 1.5T magnetic resonance (MR) scanner, Discovery MR450, offers some of the most advanced capabilities available on any 1.5T system, including real-time cardiac imaging, single-acquisition, multi-contrast abdominal images with outstanding fat/water separation and ultra high-resolution musculoskeletal exams with high patient throughput.

March 25, 2009 - Patients who undergo numerous CT scans over their lifetime may be at increased risk for cancer, according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology.

March 25, 2009 – Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc.

March 25, 2009 - ONI Medical Systems has installed the new MSK Extreme 1.5T high-field dedicated musculoskeletal MRI systems at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, and UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA.

March 25, 2009 - Beekley Corp. released a new addition to its popular line of ColdSPOT self-adhesive cold therapy packs.

March 25, 2009 - Aspyra Inc. said they have entered into a non-exclusive letter of agreement with South Plains Biomedical Services (SPBS), allowing SPBS to represent and resell Aspyra’s laboratory (LIS) and radiology information systems (RIS) and Picture Archive Communications Systems (PACS) to new and existing SPBS customers.

March 24, 2009 - Cianna Medical said today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued two patents that are directly related to its SAVI multi-catheter brachytherapy device for the treatment of breast cancer.

Voyager Imaging's Web streaming technology aims to provide fast delivery of images to referring doctor desktops through low-to-medium bandwidth connectivity. Using the Voyager workstation as a base, doctors have the advantage of a highly configurable and functional workstation, that will quickly display images even in a poor network connectivity environment, according to the company.

Voyager PACS has implemented its Data Replication and Mirror Function that provides data and operational redundancy for imaging and hospital centers. This means that data loss can be prevented if there is an unrecoverable failure, as well providing business continuity if there is any server downtime at a site.

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