Premier, FUJI extend film and imager deal

FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA has announced that the group purchasing division of Premier Inc. (Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P.) has extended the company's existing film and imager contracts through August 31, 2008. This extension allows Premier's nearly 1,500 member hospitals to continue to benefit from Fuji's full line of medical film and imagers, including conventional wet film, mammography film, dry film, dry thermal imagers and dry laser imagers.

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