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.

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 - 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 - 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 – Mark G. Watson will become the RSNA’s new executive director on April 1, 2009. Watson comes to the position with nearly 20 years of experience working in key capacities at RSNA and has served as the Society’s interim executive director since September 2008.

March 24, 2009 - Frost & Sullivan has awarded Philips Healthcare with the 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation of the Year Award for its Brilliance iCT 256 slice and iCT SP 128 slice computed tomography (CT) systems.

March 23, 2009 - Administrators at Jupiter Medical Center’s Imaging Department installed the Canon DR system, as well as the RadPRO40KW Digital Mobile and the RadPRO OT-2 overhead radiography system, to streamline various workflow segments associated with traditional diagnostic procedures reported Virtual Imaging Inc.