May 20, 2009 – The Electronic Health Records Association (EHR Association) seeks broad stakeholder consensus by sharing its perspectives on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) as well as specific recommendations for the definition of “meaningful use” of certified EHRs, which will be used to determine eligibility for the over $36B in healthcare IT stimulus incentives for

May 20, 2009 – Definiens, an image software company, and Moffitt Cancer Center will utilize Definiens technology in the analysis of lung cancer CT images for the purpose of developing more accurate prognosis and prediction models for response to specific lung cancer therapies.

May 20, 2009 – Sapheneia, a global imaging services company, reported that Clarity CT solution has helped lower CT dose 30- 40 percent, according to initial results of an on-going partnership with Children’s Memorial Hospital (“CMH”) of Chicago, Ill., designed to materially reduce CT radiation dose for pediatric patients using Sapheneia’s Clarity CT Solution.

May 19, 2009 – Mississippi community hospitals Perry County General Hospital in Richton and Pioneer Community Hospital in Aberdeen selected NovaRad technologies for their radiology departments.

May 19, 2009 - DR Systems will announce their Canadian Medical Device License for Unity RIS/PACS and feature its latest Unity release 8.2 software during the upcoming 2009 International MUSE Conference, from May 26-29, at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

May 18, 2009 – To increase workflow and optimize patient access during diagnostic and interventional neuro-vascular procedures, Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. its new biplane 12 x 12-inch flat panel detector system at the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) annual meeting in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, May 16-21, 2009 (Booth Number 225).

May 18, 2009 - Varian Medical Systems introduced at the GEC-ESTRO exhibition in Porto, Portgual, on May 14-16, 2009, BrachyVision Acuros, which is designed to enable clinicians to rapidly calculate patient doses for brachytherapy treatments (a form of radiotherapy) with an extremely high level of accuracy.

May 15, 2009 - InSite One Inc. and NDMA announced today the transition of NDMA clients who have leveraged NDMA technology for long-term management of imaging in women’s health to InSite One’s InDex services. Initial sites include: Columbia Presbyterian Eastside Radiology; Derry Imaging; ABC Imaging; Gwinett Clinic; and, Victory Breast Diagnostics & Women’s Imaging.