A rural hospital focuses on cutting edge digital technology.
   Minden residents came out in force Sunday evening to help the Kearney County Health Services raise money for a new digital mammography system.
  The new equipment; which digitally enhances soft tissue and sends the image quicker than the older system, is vital for early detection of breast cancer and costs more than $100,000.
   With the support of the Kearney County Medical Foundation, the new machine will not only help a rural hospital compete with bigger facilities, but will help make diagnoses as well. 
  "We are a trauma hospital, so it's very important to have this. This piece of equipment can be used for other x-rays as well, and so things can be read very quickly and don't have to be sent off and carried to Kearney or someone who reads them, so they can be transferred by computer," said Sharon Cederburg of the Kearney County Medical Foundation.
   The foundation hopes to have the digital mammography machine purchased and in the hospital by the beginning of next year.