April 23, 2009 - InSight Health Services Holdings Corp.'s subsidiary, InSight, completed the acquisition of two imaging centers in the Boston-metropolitan area; one center is exclusively MRI, while the other is a multimodality facility.

April 23, 2009 - To help medical informatics professionals stay competitive, the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will provide tools and two intensive "bootcamp" courses at the SIIM 2009 Annual Meeting, June 4-7, Charlotte, NC.

April 23, 2009 — Carestream Health reported that the KODAK CARESTREAM Mammography Workstation has more than 100 healthcare providers worldwide, providing a solution to streamline reading of digital breast exams. The workstation is designed to enable diagnostic review of all breast imaging exams (FFDM, ultrasound, MR, CR and others), as well as general radiology exams.

April 23, 2009 – OMG, Health Level Seven (HL7), Open Health Tools and the SOA Consortium today announced that The Honorable James B. Peake, M.D., Lieutenant General, USA (Ret), will be the keynote speaker at the Second Annual “SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change,” conference, held June 2-4, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago, IL.

April 22, 2009 - Federal agents converged on a medical supply company in Malvern, Chester County late this morning. The raid began shortly after employees reported for work Wednesday morning. Agents with the Defense Criminal Investigations Service rolled in with a rented box truck. They swarmed into the building with a search warrant and went to work.

April 21, 2009 — 20/20 Imaging said it installed its 100th P-DR 715 digital radiography (DR) system at Arizona Orthopedic Surgical Hospital in Chandler, AZ. Bruce W. Krell, DPM, FACFAS, practice owner and a solo practitioner, sees up to 125 patients per week and does up to 30 X-rays a day.

April 21, 2009 – Konica Minolta announced today that for the 15th straight quarter, MD Buyline has named the company the top rated CR vendor in a report based on an end-user satisfaction survey.

April 20, 2009 – The 2009 Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Annual Scientific Meeting (SCCT 2009) has received nearly 200 scientific abstracts for its fourth annual show, which is scheduled for July 16-19, 2009 in Orlando, FL.

April 20, 2009 - The Mind Research Network (MRN) has acquired an Elekta Neuromag, a device for noninvasive measurement of brain activity using Magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology. MEG is an imaging technique used to measure the magnetic fields produced by electrical activity in the brain via extremely sensitive devices such as superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). T

April 17, 2009 - GE Healthcare announced the company has signed a research agreement with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, to establish an alliance in medical research in area of Positron Emission Tomography (PET).