December 18, 2008 — Emageon Inc. announced that its stockholders voted to approve Emageon’s proposed merger with Health Systems Solutions Inc. at a special meeting of stockholders held at Emageon’s offices yesterday.

December 18, 2008 – Today marks the final day of bidding on the Ysio, a digital radiography (DR) system with wireless detector from Siemens Healthcare, as part of a charity event for Children’s Health Fund (CHF), a national organization dedicated to providing health care for homeless and medically disadvantaged children and advocating on behalf of all children, to be put up for auction.

December 18, 2008 — AngioDynamics Inc. announced the use of its irreversible electroporation (IRE) technology on a lymph node metastasis and the first lung lesion case at The Alfred in Melbourne, Australia.

December 17, 2008 - A study released this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that colonoscopy is associated with lower death rates from colorectal cancer, however, the procedure missed lesions more often on the right side of the colon versus the left side.

December 17, 2008 – Teleradiology provider Imaging On Call said it signed contracts with Orange Radiology Associates in Monroe, NY and Interfaith Medical Center based in Brooklyn, NY.

Imaging On Call offers various packages, including preliminary or final reads, subspecialty reads, vacation coverage, post processing and interpretation for coronary CTA and breast MRI.

December 16, 2008 – Two imaging facilities in Delaware are the latest to select NovaRad’s imaging and scheduling technologies to enhance workflow and productivity. The facilities include:

- Limestone Open MRI & Diagnostic Imaging in Wilmington, selected NovaPACS

- Mid Delaware Imaging in Dover, selected NovaPACS and NovaRIS

December 16, 2008 - Rcadia Medical Imaging Ltd., developer of the COR Analyzer software for the automated analysis of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies, closed a $3.3M investment round led by BioVentures Investors of Cambridge, MA.

December 16, 2008 - OnePacs LLC is offering its new fully functional, free version of the OnePacs web-enabled PACS system, as a way to work alongside and integrate with a current PACS or replace it.

December 16, 2008 – Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine compared narrow-band imaging (NBI) without high magnification to standard white light colonoscopy in differentiating colorectal polyps during real-time colonoscopy and found that NBI was not more accurate than white light colonoscopy.

December 16, 2008 – Digisonics was awarded the Best in KLAS for the cardiology market segment in the 2008 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards report published this week.

The KLAS evaluation is comprised of 40 individual questions that cover everything from contracting and sales to implementation, service and upgrades.

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