NHS threatens to develop its own PACSThe $9 billion program to bring IT to U.K. hospitals, clinics, and physicians' surgical practices, called GP surgeries, is not turning into the cash cow that PACS and RIS vendors might have

GE Medical Systems has signed licensing agreements with the Texas A&M University system and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to develop new near-infrared-light imaging technologies. Efforts will focus on assessing the potential of these technologies

Product family offers discrete productsSiemens Medical Solutions has reengineered the existing Sienet PACS and added a midrange system to create a family of products that can meet the needs of low- , medium-, and high-volume

Deal may presage expansion, more acquisitionsIntermagnetics has succeeded in its plan to diversify beyond superconducting magnets and coils. The company completed Jan. 27 the acquisition of Invivo, a maker of specialty patient

Popularity of PET, digital mammography boosts product salesGood news for the quarter past and a promising outlook for CTI Molecular Imaging and Hologic gave the industry reassurance that two bellwethers of technological

In an effort to streamline the distribution of radiological knowledge among medical institutions, Northwestern University Medical Center has integrated the RSNA's Medical Imaging Resource Center (MIRC)-compliant teaching files into its busy PACS

A client-server model for advanced image postprocessing techniques is unshackling radiologists at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from their PACS workstations. By distributing advanced postprocessing capabilities to computers

Radiology's baby has grown up. No longer home to just radiological images, PACS are now making room for images from other hospital departments. The PACS at one hospital in Spain incorporates pathology and endoscopy images in addition to radiological

PACS and a remote reading strategy were used to isolate SARS patients while allowing them to be imaged with a mobile CT scanner in a program rolled out in Singapore. Dr. C.C. Tchoyoson Lim, a consultant neuroradiologist at the National Neuroscience

There are milestones and then there are milestones. Toshiba Medical Systems is claiming a jim-dandy-the shipment of its 150,000th diagnostic ultrasound system. Contributing to the Tokyo company's achievement are its two latest products: Aplio, an

Company offers low-cost DR alternatives to CRTwo years after launching its first CCD-based digital radiography product, Imaging Dynamics is enjoying the fruits of a market that is shifting gradually away from computed radiography

The Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social, a healthcare agency of the Mexican government, has awarded GE Medical Systems the largest mammography equipment order in its corporate history. The $23 million contract calls for the installation and service of 80

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Boston has agreed to collaborate on the clinical and product development of Toshiba's Aquilion 16 CFX multislice CT scanners. The Aquilion 16 CFX is being installed and will become clinically operational this

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Britain's largest hospital trust, has chosen Agfa's IMPAX solution as the first step in what will be one of the largest PACS programs ever in the U.K. When complete, the Agfa PACS infrastructure will extend through all eight

Flood of new systems complement RSNA exhibitsMany of the products cleared by the FDA in the final weeks of last year appeared in vendors' booths at the RSNA meeting. Among them were megaslice CT scanners from Siemens and Philips, a

Deal could be final in early AprilThe way is clear for GE to acquire European life sciences giant Amersham. Regulators from the European Commission gave the okay Jan. 21 for the merger to go forward. Antitrust regulators in the

Company plans detectors for other applicationsFlat detectors are picking up momentum in the x-ray market, according to French supplier Trixell, which sold about 1000 such detectors in 2003-double the installed base prior to that

Who will pay for our PACS? This is the question many U.K. radiologists are asking after health service officials excluded digital imaging provision from an IT "must-have" list.Radiologists and vendors alike have been holding their breath ever since the

The digital camera may be the imaging modality of choice for many referring clinicians, but, unfortunately for the PACS, digital photographs often lack important contextual data needed for treatment. A new tool designed to merge this type of metadata

No longer separate entities, the technologies of imaging and informatics are irreversibly linked. It is impossible for even the most modality-focused attendee who enters the technical exhibitions in McCormick Place not to recognize this. "Integrated