January 8, 2009 – The Premier healthcare alliance sent a letter to Congressional leadership yesterday urging the inclusion of health information technology (HIT) in economic stimulus legislation.

In the letter, Premier said that HIT will improve healthcare quality, reduce errors and holds the potential for long-term savings and efficiencies for the healthcare system.

January 8, 2009 - Atlas Medical Technologies of Florida, which refurbishes computed tomography (CT) systems and offers aftermarket service, has recently moved into their new state-of-the-art 15,000 square foot facility to expand operations based on the company’s recent growth.

January 8, 2009 - AMICAS Inc. said it has a new partnership with one of the nation's largest radiology groups, Diversified Radiology of Colorado, P.C., of Denver, CO.

This partnership will reportedly enable Diversified Radiology to streamline their billing operations and improve operational decisions with on-demand business intelligence tools.

January 8, 2009 - The budgetary constraints facing many healthcare facilities will significantly affect the markets for picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS) and cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) over the next five years, according to Millennium Research Group's (MRG) U.S. Markets for PACS, RIS and CVIS 2009 report.

January 8, 2009 - TomoTherapy Inc. said today that Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO., has commenced treating patients on its second TomoTherapy Hi-Art(R) treatment system.

January 7, 2009 — Carestream Health received orders from Mercy Medical Center (Des Moines, IA) for CARESTREAM Enterprise Information Management licenses and two IBM XIV Storage Systems.

January 7, 2009 - The Institute for Medical Informatics, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, announces it has developed a remote application for review of pathology images for the Apple iPhone.

January 7, 2009 - St. Luke’s Hospital, with the largest radiotherapy department in the Republic of Ireland, recently purchased 11 of Orfit Industries’ positioning and immobilization systems for use with their new Elektra Synergy Linear Accelerators.

January 7, 2009 - ASTRO is changing its name to the American Society for Radiation Oncology after being known as the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology for 26 years.

ASTRO said it will also unveiled a new logo that will keep the acronym ASTRO by having the "T" represent ASTRO's tagline, "Targeting Cancer Care."

January 7, 2008 – Hyland Software’s OnBase earned the top spot in the "Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services" report.

OnBase is a fully integrated enterprise content management software suite. The KLAS report found that 100 of users surveyed said they would buy OnBase gain.

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