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COEUR D'ALENE, IDAHO – OCTOBER 24, 2005 – NightHawk Radiology Holdings, Inc., the parent company to NightHawk Radiology Services, LLC, today announced the acquisition of American Teleradiology Nighthawks, Inc., a Virginia-based provider of overnight and off-hours teleradiology services. The acquisition allows NightHawk to increase its customer base by acquiring contracts previously held by American Teleradiology.
NightHawk, headquartered in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, provides nighttime and weekend emergency radiology services to radiology groups and hospitals across the United States. NightHawk's team of American Board of Radiology-certified, U.S. state-licensed and hospital-privileged affiliated radiologists uses its proprietary workflow technology to provide radiological interpretations to customers in the United States primarily from centralized reading facilities located in Sydney, Australia and Zurich, Switzerland.
"We have always thought of NightHawk Radiology Services as being the leader in the teleradiology field and we are excited about joining their outstanding team," said Dr. Naiyer Imam, M.D., M.Sc., a neuroradiologist and co-founder of American Teleradiology. "We feel that with NightHawk's combination of highly-qualified radiologists, centralized reading centers and workflow technology, we will be able to improve the level of service delivered to our customers and their patients," said Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria, M.D., M.B.A., a physician entrepreneur and co-founder. The other American Teleradiology co-founder is Doug Karr, M.H.S., a radiology administrator.
About NightHawk Radiology Services
NightHawk is the leading provider of nighttime and weekend, or off-hours, emergency radiology services to radiology groups and hospitals across the United States. NightHawk's team of American Board of Radiology-certified, U.S. state-licensed and hospital-privileged radiologists uses a proprietary workflow technology to provide radiological interpretations, or reads, remotely to customers in the United States primarily from our centralized reading facilities located in Sydney, Australia and Zurich, Switzerland. By locating affiliated radiologists in Australia and Switzerland, NightHawk can provide off-hours reads in the United States during local daylight hours. The reads that NightHawk currently provides to customers primarily consist of preliminary diagnoses of emergency trauma and non-traumatic emergency conditions.