The U.S. Air Force awarded ECRI Institute, a nonprofit medical researchorganization, a new contract to deploy its Alerts Tracker, a web-based,automated hazard and recall alert management system, at 80 Air Forcefacilities worldwide.

Six hospitals in northern England are implementing Varian MedicalSystems’ Aria for medical oncology system to enable them to function asone clinical network.

Agfa HealthCare installed the HYDMedia archiving and documentmanagement system (DMS) at the Marienhospital in Osnabrück, part of theManagement katholischer Krankenhäuser der Region Osnabrück (MKO)holding, in northern Germany.

Medical imaging system provider im3D/Medical Imaging Lab has installedits Cad-Colon diagnostic system in 13 healthcare facilities throughoutItaly, where it will assist medical specialists in the diagnosis andprevention of colorectal tumors, the Torino, Italy-based company said.

Imaging Diagnostic Systems of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., reported that ithas shipped its CT Laser Mammography (CTLM) product to the UniversitiPutra Malaysia (UPM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Healthcare information systems developer iSoft has been appointed assub-contractor to Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services (ACS)Healthcare Solutions to provide and support a laboratory informationsystem (LIS) at Malta's new 850-bed Mater Dei Hospital.

San Francisco Health Plan (SFHP) has selected Plexis Claims Manager of Ashland, Ore.-based Plexis Healthcare to provide benefitsadministration, electronic data interchange, as well as provideanalytic and reporting processing for the San Francisco Department ofPublic Health’s new Healthy San Francisco program.