Novation Awards Agreement To E-Z-EM For EDA Technology For Empower CT Injectors

Lake Success, NY - E-Z-EM, Inc. recently announced that Novation, the health care contracting services company of VHA, Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium, has awarded E-Z-EM an agreement for the Company's EDATM technology for Empower CT and CTA injector systems. The one-year agreement provides VHA and UHC's nearly 2,500 hospital members access to preferred contract pricing for Empower CT and CTA injector systems with EDA and the E-Z-EM EDA accessory product. The agreement is effective Sept. 1, 2007 and includes an option for a one year extension of the agreement.

An extravasation is a potentially dangerous situation that occurs when contrast is inadvertently injected into the soft tissue near the site of the needle insertion. E-Z-EM's patented extravasation detection accessory (EDA) measures electrical variances in the skin surface that can occur when contrast is accidentally injected into the soft tissue, and can automatically pause the injection before tissue damage occurs. The award winning Empower product line is the only family of CT and CTA injectors on the market that posses EDA technology. Empower CT and CTA injectors are also powered by the IRiSCT Injector Reporting Information System, a software application that automatically captures operational data from several important functions of the injector. When used to network all injector systems in a facility, IRiSCT helps consolidate data from the entire Radiology department, facilitating quantitative analysis and simplifying budgeting, while allowing busy administrators to focus on other critical management tasks.

Commenting on the release, Anthony A. Lombardo, president and chief executive officer of E-Z-EM, said, "This agreement will give Novation's alliance members an opportunity to obtain preferred pricing for our award winning Empower CT and CTA products with EDA technology. The agreement is the second significant agreement of its kind for our injector products, and we are very pleased to be working with Novation to offer Empower CT and CTA products to VHA and UHC members."

SOURCE: E-Z-EM, Inc.