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In November 2005, Emageon Inc. acquired Camtronics Medical System, a cardiology imaging company 15 years its senior. What the fourth-quarter buy meant for Emageon, according to Chuck Jett, chairman of the board, president and CEO, was that the company spent the majority of 2006 integrating products and cultures to add diagnostic cardiology imaging to its radiology product. And apparently the integration challenges paid off, as 2006 revenues came in at a record $123.5 million, a nearly 6.5 percent increase over 2005's $75 million.
As head of Emageon, which spun off from a University of Alabama in Birmingham Medical School creation, Jett has had his eye on imaging for quite some time. As with other technologies, Jett says imaging is...