June 24, 2009 – Nyack Hospital has chosen McKesson’s Paragon technology for community hospitals, enabling the use of comprehensive electronic health records (EHRs) and financial management systems throughout its 375-bed facility in Rockland County, N.Y.

June 24, 2009 - Viztek, the radiology solution provider, announces installation of a digital radiology (DR) U-Arm system at Patients First HealthCare of Washington, Mo. The sale to the 60-doctor, multispecialty group - practicing in 15 disciplines - was coordinated through local area dealer Source One/Merry X-Ray.

June 24, 2009 - Naviscan Inc., a molecular breast imaging (MBI) provider, has entered into a distribution agreement with Hae Dong Co. Ltd. to market and serve Naviscan’s high-resolution organ-specific PET scanner, whose breast application is known as positron emission mammography (PEM), in the Republic of South Korea.

June 24, 2009 - NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) announced it acquired a wireless video technology that extends its current imaging capabilities in the operating room (OR) and beyond. By integrating this new technology with its medical visualization and informatics platforms, the company plans to develop a compelling array of wireless solutions for surgical, endoscopy and interventional suites.

June 23, 2009 - On June 11, 2009 57 members of Congress sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him “to reject arbitrary cuts to imaging services or changes to the utilization rate assumption.”

June 23, 2009 - On June 12, 2009, FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA Inc., announced that Amerinet, one of the leading healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in the United States, added Synapse cardiovascular and Synapse RIS to its existing Fujifilm contracts.

June 22, 2009 - U-Systems, a dedicated breast ultrasound systems manufacturer, together with Medical Director Jessica A. Guingrich, M.D., of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Susan G.

June 22, 2009 - GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with the Southwestern Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Network (SWODIN) to expand its existing Diagnostic Imaging Repository (DI-r), anchored by Centricity Enterprise Archive, to the participating hospitals in Waterloo-Wellington and Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant Local Health Integrated Networks (LHIN).

June 19, 2009 - Increased utilization of advanced medical imaging, such as CT and MRI, between 1991 and 2004 improved life expectancy rates by a significant factor, actually greater than the increases in mortality caused by obesity over the same timeframe, according to a recent study conducted by Columbia University professor Frank Lichtenberg, Ph.D.