Investment firm buys 50% of Shared Imaging

Private investment firm Lubar & Co. of Milwaukee has acquired 50 percent of Shared Imaging, a Streamwood, Ill.-based provider of medical imaging systems and service programs to hospitals and healthcare providers.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The investment will provide the capital for Shared Imaging to expand its service offerings and enter new markets, according to David Lubar, president of Lubar.

Shared Imaging founder and CEO Ray Stachowiak retains 50 percent ownership of Shared Imaging, which has supplied more than 200 CT, MRI and PET/CT diagnostic imaging systems in 42 states, Lubar said.

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