Misys Healthcare Systems has upped the installed base of its EMR (electronic medical records) technology after announcing this week that 14 medical practices across the United States have recently added or signed on to implement the system.

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. (TAMS) has installed its second Aquilion 16 multislice computed tomography (CT) scanner at the Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in California.

Confirma Inc. said this week that it has sold and installed more than 100 CADStream systems to customers throughout the United States, including hospitals, private imaging practices and women's imaging centers.

DeJarnette Research Systems Inc. will deploy three more dyseCT computed tomography (CT) workflow engines at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn.

McKesson Corp. this week announced it has signed a three-year, $150 million distribution contract with Adventist Health System, which operates 38 hospitals within 10 states.

The first U.S. patients were scanned on the Siemens Medical Solutions Somatom Sensation 64-slice CT scanner last week at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Catholic Health System (CHS) in New York and Siemens Medical Solutions have inked a 10-year, $100 million strategic alliance that features the latest in diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology (IT) systems, marking the first time CHS has

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