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Managers depart Philips PACS unit

Two top managers in the Philips picture archiving and communicationssystems business resigned late last year. Philips remains stronglycommitted to its CommView PACS joint venture with AT&T despitethe departures, said Janet Collins, director of

Center firm sells MRI to managed-care groups

Declining Medicare reimbursement for magnetic resonance imagingscans combined with bargain-shopping by managed-health-care groupsspells trouble for high-field MRI centers, said Leonard F. Vernon,president and CEO of Imaging Management Associates. Centers

Soviet ties lead Fischer east

Morgan W. Nields, chairman and CEO of Fischer Imaging, has investedconsiderable time and resources in developing business connectionsin the Soviet Union. He has traveled to that country a half-dozentimes since joining Comed, a U.S./USSR joint venture,

MRI prices fall sharply in markets outside U.S.

Tight reimbursement and improvements in low-field technology havecombined to force down the prices of magnetic resonance imagingsystems sold in Japan and Europe. Japanese MRI prices have beendeclining for at least two years, and this trend has spread