Good afternoon, KMart shoppers, don't miss our spring hospital PACS special in the electronics department. Buy two, get one free.It hasn't quite come to that, but anyone interested in purchasing PACS on a shoestring budget would have appreciated Paul

Estrangements between PACS customers and PACS vendors may be awkward, but a number of filmless hospitals are finding it necessary to initiate divorce proceedings against their original PACS suppliers."We're beginning to see PACS divorces in the

The radiology residents were a dowdy and pathetic pair. Richie couldn't jump, a problem that kept him from playing on the radiology department basketball team. Amy had no rhythm and couldn't dance, and thus risked losing her true love, a Latin salsa

GREAT FALLS, VA -- Physicians, administrators, technologists, physicists, industry leaders, and information specialists come together once a year at the annual meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology to discuss the crucial

The maturing of the PACS marketplace and its broadening scope -- from large hospitals and academic institutions to midsized and smaller facilities -- is expected to be reflected in the 21st annual meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in

Digital report dictation is essential to a fully digital radiology department. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -- with the help of commercially available microphones and a small amount of software -- have integrated their PACS

Going completely digital is a given for larger hospitals and academic institutions. But smaller and midsized facilities that are just beginning to consider the move to soft copy may find the purchase of a PACS daunting, if not impossible. The application

Closer integration with PACS and the ability to visualize reports in DICOM exemplify the enhanced capabilities of Voxar's latest version of CT colonography software. Colonscreen version 2.3 is optimized to visualize supine and prone CT DICOM data sets

An ultrasound upgrade shown by Siemens early this month at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Philadelphia adds dynamic 3D imaging to the company's Sonoline G50 and G60S systems. The inMotion upgrade, which begins shipping this

A Canadian software developer is on a crusade of sorts, promoting awareness of data: their type and, more important, their value to diagnosticians. Fixed content storage, a requirement of PACS and other medical information systems because of the need to

Irvington, NJ-based SmartPACS has signed three six-year contracts with healthcare providers to install PACS products valued at more than $11.5 million. The systems will be installed at Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, MA; Fallon Clinic in Worcester,

In a move aimed at addressing the changing PET market, CTI Molecular Imaging and Siemens Medical Solutions are realigning their PET and PET/CT sales and marketing organizations. Under the agreement, all PET and PET/CT scanners sold will be marketed under

Image management dominated FDA clearances in March, tallying 10 of the 24 approvals, but only a handful were for full-blown PACS. The rest were for specialty software, mostly algorithms designed to improve the handling of data from a specific

Siemens Medical Solutions has unveiled a new addition to its "G" series of Sonoline ultrasound scanners, an all-digital gray-scale product that incorporates features from higher tier systems. The system, which will begin shipping worldwide this month,

At last, it's official. After months of uncertainty and confusion, U.K. government officials have confirmed a national investment package to bring PACS to all of England's acute hospital Trusts within the next three years. Just 25 of the country's 178

"Integration, integration, integration" is the mantra in healthcare IT circles. Why, then, do most PACS solutions require radiologists to report all images on that same vendor's workstation?The closed market in reporting workstations could be blown

The maturing of the PACS marketplace and its broadening scope -- from large hospitals and academic institutions to midsized and smaller facilities -- is expected to be reflected in the 21st annual meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in

Cedara is making plans to begin marketing its new I-ReadMammo breast imaging workstation in the U.S. during the coming months. The product, which will be prominently featured in the Cedara product line, already has been cleared for marketing in Europe

Strange things are happening in the MR market. The number of new scanners sold last year rose slightly compared with 2002. Revenues, however, fell. Usually, this indicates a softening market-too few dollars chasing too many scanners. But it's not that

The PACS industry has a new alliance. Agfa and Network Appliance, a provider of enterprise network storage solutions, have entered into a marketing, technology, and distribution partnership to offer NetApp network storage solutions to buyers of Agfa's