Mobile PET provider Mobile PET Systems of San Diego has signed a five-year contract with Torrance Memorial Medical Center, a 380-bed facility based in Torrance, CA. The contract includes mobile services, trained technologists, and clinical support.The
Like other manufacturers developing state-of-the-art technology, digital x-ray firms must convince a skeptical clinical community that their products are worth the extra cost. Despite the uphill battle, the challenge has proven irresistible to another
Management buyout turns Rogan U.S. subsidiary into ImcoFirm seeks to broaden reach in PACS and image managementReflecting a growing trend in PACS to add workflow and information systems software to core image archiving and viewing
Merge Technologies makes management moveConnectivity and PACS firm Merge Technologies has named Joseph Gentile director of worldwide system sales. Gentile will manage the Milwaukee, WI, firm’s systems solution group, which provides medical
Technology platforms battle for control of desktop imagingPACS vendors jockey for position in software businessAs interest in enterprise-wide image distribution grows, several PACS and modality vendors are responding with PC-based
Citing the lure of integrating diagnostic imaging modalities with radiotherapy systems, GE Medical Systems and Varian Medical Systems have formed a North American marketing, sales, and product development alliance. The two vendors plan to supply a
Contrast agent developer E-Z-EM launched a new contrast agent at December’s RSNA show. Digibar 190 is a barium sulfate product for use in digital fluoroscopic studies of the gastrointestinal tract, and is first in a line of contrast media products
Medical imaging equipment refurbisher Cassling Diagnostic Imaging shifted its management structure this month when it appointed three new executives to posts within its organization and that of its subsidiary, Integrated Equipment Solutions. The Omaha,
Armed with new clinical data and FDA clearance (for expanded labeling purposes) of strong diagnostic performance claims, computer-controlled light box manufacturer SmartLight is talking with several medical imaging OEMs about partnerships aimed at
Mercury Computer Systems this month appointed Didier Thibaud to the post of vice president and general manager of its medical business group. Thibaud has contributed to the Chelmsford, MA, company’s growth in the European medical imaging market,
Nuclear medicine and RIS/PACS vendor ADAC Laboratories has brought some new faces to its management team. James Haisler has been named COO of the vendor’s Dallas-based healthcare information systems division. Haisler most recently served as
MRI has entered a renaissance, spurred by technological progress and customer demand that drove 1999 sales close to the $1 billion mark for the second straight year. The RSNA exhibit floor teemed with new systems as some manufacturers sought to leapfrog
Nuclear medicine firms arrived at the RSNA meeting optimistic about the modality’s potential for growth. Despite an overall flat market in 1999, vendors predict sales will climb over the next two years from $700 million to more than $1 billion,
The three-year boom under way in the MRI market continues to drive technology development in the sector as a flurry of new scanner introductions helped the modality take center stage at the 1999 RSNA meeting. Of particular note were advances in bringing
Toshiba America Medical Systems has named Geraldine Goodstone to the post of director of healthcare business development. Goodstone fills a position left empty by Robert Kreps, now vice president of sales. The move is the latest in a string of management
As was the case at the 1998 RSNA meeting, ultrasound firms largely showed evolutionary technology advancements on the exhibit floor. Several companies did take the opportunity to launch new scanners, however. Toshiba America Medical Systems introduced
Film and PACS vendor Agfa has signed a sole-source supplier agreement with Orion Medical Management. Under terms of the contract, Orion will purchase x-ray film, dry imaging media, imagers, networking components, screens, and cassettes from Ridgefield
The digital x-ray market continues to face challenges in persuading end-users to convert their radiographic equipment to the digital realm. With price tags as much as three times more expensive than analog equipment, most healthcare institutions appear
Multislice CT has entered the next phase of its evolution as vendors concentrate on the practical, rather than fundamental, aspects of the technology. Multirow detectors and subsecond scanning have created enormous clinical opportunity and thorny
Mammography information system developer PenRad Technologies of Plymouth, MN, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with GE Medical Systems of Waukesha, WI, to sell its PenRad Mammography Information System (MIS). The software is Windows
Judging by the number of vendors promoting image management products at the meeting, the PACS market has finally come of age. Of the more than 600 commercial exhibitors, nearly half claimed some kind of PACS or PACS-related product. In particular, the
The full-field digital mammography landscape shifted with breathtaking speed last month when the Food and Drug Administration’s Radiological Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee unanimously recommended clearance for GE Medical
Digital mammography developers received a surprise at the RSNA show this year when GE announced that it had filed a premarket approval application (PMA) in October for its unit, Senographe 2000D. The news changed the digital mammography landscape
Mention the word security to PACS administrators, and their main areas of concern would usually be workstations and servers. What they may be overlooking, however, is the modality equipment connected to the PACS network.With the growing demand to
Mention the word security to PACS administrators, and their main areas of concern would usually be workstations and servers. What they may be overlooking, however, is the modality equipment connected to the PACS network.With the growing demand to
Integration and scalable products leave PACS poised to prosperEntry-level systems attract first-time buyers at RSNAJudging by the number of vendors promoting image management and archiving products at the recent RSNA meeting, PACS has
infoRAD showcases integration and “off-the-shelf” PACSDespite good vendor support, IHE attendance was sparseBy Cynthia E. KeenThe latest advances in electronic technologies for radiology were once again showcased in the infoRAD
Siemens, Fonar join GE as open units move to high-fieldThe effort to create high-field open MRI systems has shifted into high gear as three companies highlighted their versions of this new breed of products on the exhibit floor of last
Vendor believes Skylight could expand nuclear applications Following up on the 1998 RSNA introduction of its dual-head, open-gantry-design Forte gamma camera, ADAC Laboratories took the open gantry concept to its logical conclusion with the 1999
ADAC HealthCare Information Systems (HCIS) moved to strengthen its burgeoning PACS efforts this month by signing an agreement with global information technology services firm Perot Systems. The multiyear deal stipulates that Dallas-based Perot will
