Cordium Links, a provider of centralized cardiac safety monitoring, hasestablished a joint venture with a Chinese organization to deliver corelab services to drug development companies performing cardiac safetyevaluation as part of clinical research in China.

Four Georgia medical facilities have selected NovaRad as their imaging technology provider for RIS and PACS solutions.

The Women’s Imaging Centre in Lafayette, La., has installed Aurora Imaging Technology’s 1.5Tesla dedicated breast MRI system.

In the last four years, MRI procedure volume growth in the U.S. hasslowed to an average annualized rate of 3 percent, compared to anaverage growth rate of 15 percent prior to 2004, according to a newstudy published by IMV Medical Information Division.

Agfa HealthCare has been chosen to implement a second phase RIS/PACSprogram at the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University inChina.

Berkshire Independent Hospital in Reading, England, part of the RamsayHealth Care network, has installed a Magnetom Espree 1.5T wide-bore MRIscanner from Siemens Healthcare to assist with examination anddiagnosis in a variety of conditions.

Zotec Partners will perform medical billing and accounts receivablemanagement services for Radiology Specialists of Florida, aradiology division of Florida Physicians Medical Group.

Booth Radiology Associates has purchased two 1600 Plus X-Series DRsystems from Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) to complete its transitionto digital imaging.