The scope of a marketing agreement that allows Siemens Medical Solutions to market Gamma Medica's molecular imaging animal scanner has been expanded to cover worldwide markets. The two companies began their alliance last July when Siemens obtained U.S.

The trend toward digital imaging in healthcare has forced many traditional film-based companies to reinvent themselves as purveyors of electronic data management solutions. Many radiologists now buy their PACS and RIS from vendors that previously

The sale of PET/CT scanners in the U.S. could get a boost-possibly in the months ahead and almost certainly in the long term-if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services carries through with its proposal to reimburse for the use of PET to evaluate

Information overload is an oft-heard gripe in hospitals running state-of-the-art digital imaging systems. Consequently, vendors can spend as much time talking up data-handling aspects of their latest products as they do discussing the benefits of better

The concept of hybrid scanners took root with PET/CT, which combined anatomic exactness and functional sensitivity in a single package, albeit an expensive one. Equipped with a 16-slice CT and a premium performance PET detector ring, this package can

PACS developer Merge eFilm has enhanced its Fusion PACS to provide referring physicians with improved Web-based accessibility and image manipulation capabilities. The company's Fusion PACS version 1.2.7 provides secure access to images and reports via

If not for the advent of PET/CT, the nuclear medicine market would be going nowhere. Gamma cameras have slipped into a very long life cycle. Industry executives estimate that customers are holding onto gamma cameras for eight to 10 years, and for good

Three software packages, each a work-in-progress, were highlights at the Toshiba America booth during the SNM meeting in Philadelphia. The company also released new versions of the e.soft software platform on which the t.cam gamma camera runs. Toshiba's

The Aquilion family of multislice CT scanners will soon include a system capable of generating 64 slices per rotation. The company formally announced at the International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT that it will release a 64-slice version of its

The spring crop of FDA clearances was remarkable as much for its number as for the quality and sophistication of the devices that passed review. In two months, the agency cleared 62 devices: 36 in April and 26 in May. The clearances comprised several

GE Healthcare announced at this month's Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting the development of a system to help produce a derivative of the fluorine positron radioisotope. The 18F-F2 isotope is a critical starting point for the production of F-DOPA,

Study downloading times are about to slim down. A new PACS software tool developed by researchers in Canada promises to speed up the process by displaying an overview of a large image series, allowing the user to select images for priority

SOMERSET, N.J., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Netilla(R) Networks, Inc., a leading provider of SSL VPN and secure application access management solutions, today announced the appointment of Bill Lynch as executive director, healthcare solutions. Lynch, who

Marketing execs at Fujifilm Medical Systems USA have revamped the company's pricing models for PACS in hopes of extending the reach of Synapse. Fuji's new volume-based site license model considers procedure volume and planned concurrency of use, allowing

IT vendors are agog about opportunities inherent in the creation of electronic medical records. Going digital can boost efficiency and reduce medical errors, according to proponents, to say nothing about the sales potential of implementing such

Premier Purchasing Partners, the group purchasing division of Premier, has awarded a three-year contract to Fujifilm Medical Systems USA for its Synapse PACS. Several healthcare facilities purchased Synapse under Premier's previous PACS purchasing

Litigation involving CTI Molecular Imaging and GE has been settled out of court. The lawsuits were initially brought by GE against CTI Molecular Imaging, its PETNET Solutions radiopharmaceuticals unit, and certain employees of CTI Molecular Imaging to

Patient safety is the top priority and primary business issue among senior executives of IT vendors, according to a survey sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The society concluded these concerns are underscored by the

In an effort to help customers improve scanner uptime, GE Healthcare is providing its field service engineers in North America with smart phones powered by Palm operating systems. The company believes the phones enable staff to respond to service issues

The battle over CT slices, which has ebbed and flowed these past six years with each new generation of scanner, has reached a new pitch. The diversity of scanners now approaching the marketplace has prompted vendors to massage the language used to