Swedish IT firm Sectra has signed a partnership agreement with U.S.-based RIS Logic, a provider of radiology information systems designed primarily for imaging centers in North America. Through the alliance, Sectra's PACS will be fully integrated with

Special dividend may trigger adjustmentEfforts by GE to purchase Instrumentarium appear to have run into a couple of snags-one regulatory, the other financial. The two companies have received requests for additional information

Web-based PACS developer Amicas has agreed to provide Perceptive Informatics with digital image management and distribution technology. Perceptive Informatics, a subsidiary of Parexel International, supplies pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical

Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Scott, Sherwood and Brindley Foundation have cut an agreement with Siemens to develop their Center for Advanced Medicine, a fully integrated, all-digital healthcare facility in Temple, TX. The new facility, scheduled

Markus Lusser has been named vice president of sales and marketing for the Siemens Medical Solutions' Nuclear Medicine Group. On March 1, he took over worldwide strategic sales and marketing planning for the division from Barbara Franciose. Lusser, who

Head and neck radiology is evolving and developing as a subspecialty area alongside neighboring disciplines of neuroradiology, general radiology, and interventional radiology. Clinical disciplines that cooperate with head and neck radiology include otorhinolaryngology, facial and dental surgery, skull bone surgery, radio-oncology, and pediatrics. Patients from the internal medicine and surgery departments are also evaluated with diagnostic head and neck radiology methods.

Many hospital IT disaster recovery plans are focused around HIS recoverability, with PACS as an afterthought. In these facilities, PACS exists outside of traditional IT hardware and management infrastructures, with separate administrators, LAN subnets,

A computerized PACS authoring and editing environment for creation of image-based electronic teaching files can replace a collection of printed film images. CasIm@ge allows physicians to create reference databases for teaching and research directly

Clinical conferences and multidisciplinary medical rounds carried out in hospital conference rooms rely on the presentation of images, charts, and videotapes. Like operating rooms, they are often overlooked during PACS planning sessions. But any facility

Dr. Elmar Kotter Head, imaging information technology, Freibourg University Hospital, Germany The growing belief that PACS should not be an isolated information system, but has to be interconnected with other information systems, especially HIS and

U.S. service provider to lead sales effortSamsung SDS America wants to establish a beachhead in the U.S. medical imaging market. The Korean electronics giant has turned to Ultimate Medical Services of Lake Charles, LA, to

Ergonomics, flexibility distinguish EnVisorThe latest ultrasound scanner to join the ranks of ergonomically designed systems is attracting interest from a wide range of customers, according to developer Philips Medical Systems. It

2002 marks second consecutive record yearMR vendors are on a roll. The industry in 2002 shattered previous records for the U.S. shipment of MR units and revenues obtained from their sale, exceeding the marks set a year earlier by

Time was of the essence for Amicas at Lakeland Regional Health System in St. Joseph, MI, where the company installed a Web-based PACS in less than 45 days. Lakeland, a three-hospital system with 389 acute beds, 44 subacute beds, and 253 long-term beds,

Xtream offers image reformatting at consoleGE Medical Systems launched a new software platform March 7 at the European Congress of Radiology designed to ease workflow bottlenecks in the CT suite. This technology, called Xtream, is

Application service provider (ASP) models let radiology departments focus on image generation and interpretation while outsourcing nonclinical work such as image storage, retrieval, and distribution. ASP models are also used for PACS backup and

The transition to filmless radiology and PACS has revolutionized the way in which radiographic images are viewed and interpreted. Viewboxes are becoming obsolete, and monitors are becoming the predominant viewing medium. Given the variety of monitors

The interactive nature of nuclear medicine images makes it difficult to integrate even the simplest of these studies into a hospital PACS, according to a leading expert on medical image processing.Unlike static radiological image data sets, nuclear

GE Medical Systems has released a new software platform designed to ease workflow bottlenecks in the CT suite. The Xtream technology application will be installed on the operator console of GE's multidetector scanners, offering a one-touch protocol for

From traditional transcription services to speech recognition technology to structured reporting, the way to streamlined reports seems straightforward. But appearances can be deceptive, and many objections may be raised against structured reporting.