Buying an expensive digital radiography unit does not guarantee top-notch images or major reductions in x-ray dose. Even more disturbing, some of today's high-priced units can't match the performance of yesterday's discontinued models.The wide variance

Philips Medical Systems will provide state-of-the-art cardiovascular imaging equipment and software, enterprise-wide PACS, and radiology equipment, as well as patient monitoring systems, services, and other products including consumer electronics,

Siemens Medical Solutions and Mountain States Health Alliance (MHSA), a regional healthcare system in northeast Tennessee, have signed an agreement for MSHA to implement an extended suite of Soarian IT capabilities. Included in the agreement are Soarian

PACS vendor Merge eFilm reported a first quarter net sales increase of 41% to $8.64 million compared with $6.12 million in the previous year's quarter ended March 31, 2003. Operating income was $2.14 million, an increase of 45% compared with $1.48

An enterprise-wide information management model developed at Harvard Medical School promises to bridge the disparities becoming apparent as radiology information systems extend their reach beyond the radiology department. Digital radiology departments

NEW YORK, April 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ramp Corporation today announced that it has entered into a letter of intent to purchase Berdy Medical Systems, Inc., the publisher of the SmartClinic point-of-care software, which has become an

One examination that frequently gives rise to internal discussions in our department is CT of the chest to detect pulmonary emboli. Apart from the fact that patients who needed a ventilation/perfusion scan had to be transported to another hospital site,

Return of growth depends on megaslice productsThe arrival of the next generation of CT scanners--32-, 40-, and 64-slice products--promises to reinvigorate a market that stumbled last year and showed continued weakness in the first

On April 5, CR and PACS products from Kodak began an eight-week mission into the Brazilian rain forest, supporting a multidisciplinary team determined to diagnose and treat contagious diseases that have become a threat to indigenous tribes of the remote

St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville, IL, is renovating its cardiac catheterization laboratory to install Siemens' Axiom Artis dTC, a digital ceiling-mounted cardiac imaging system equipped with flat-panel detector technology. The system, the first of

FDA clears the way for initial salesSiemens Medical Solutions took a giant step closer to market with its two new CT systems, the Sensation 64 and the Sensation Open, after they cleared the FDA earlier this month.Sensation 64,

Vision, not competition, drove merger, says GE execWhat could be the most significant change yet in corporate radiology has come to pass. GE has completed its acquisition of life sciences giant Amersham Health in a $9.5 billion

Loose ends cease to dangle on both side of AtlanticGE completed its long-drawn-out acquisition of Instrumentarium Imaging back in October, but the final loose ends are only now being tied. An 11th-hour decree from the U.S.

Petromed, the exclusive distributor for StorCOMM's PACS in Russia, has expanded the Jacksonville, FL-based company's presence there with three new sites. All three are located in Murmansk, near the Barents Sea in northern Russia. The sites include the

Radiologists are familiar with the idea of disruptive technologies. Probably the biggest and most significant has been the advent of digital modalities and PACS. The concept of PACS as a disruptive technology has become so pervasive that it shows up as

A new DICOM gateway server system solves the problem of integrating local hospital DICOM-based PACS with PACS from other manufacturers. The gateway solution could enable the creation of a global PACS network, according to its developers."Our DICOM

If you haven't heard the term "grid computing" yet, you undoubtedly will hear it soon; it's one of the hottest and more controversial topics in computer circles today. It refers to the use of multiple computers, typically in different locations, as a

Plans for a regional PACS connecting diagnostic imaging services throughout Northern Ireland to a single, digital infrastructure are taking shape.Northern Ireland's 1.6 million people are currently served by 19 hospital trusts, each with its own

HipGraphics has extended its exclusive partnership with Siemens Medical Solutions to continue developing interactive 3D medical imaging applications. Under the agreement, the two companies, which have been working together to develop 3D applications for

Indiana University Hospital has become the first clinical site in the U.S. to begin using Philips' top-of-the-line Brilliance CT 40-slice system. Hospital staff are putting the system through its paces to evaluate patients and identify disease in a range