Siemens and CTI enter market firstSiemens Medical Solutions and CTI Molecular Imaging became the first vendors to offer customers hybrid PET systems that boast a 16-slice CT capability, showing off the Siemens biograph Sensation 16

B-Soft Group, a leading vendor of HIS products in China, has signed with Canadian PACS developer Cedara to sell that company's PACS products. Under an agreement signed Nov. 5, B-Soft and Cedara will cooperatively develop an integrated hospital

One of the first paperless hospitals has opened on schedule in Indianapolis, featuring everything from electronic medical records to radiologists reading images over satellite links from home. The $60 million Heart Center of Indiana is being watched

What does a PACS administrator need to know to do the job? What roles are the PACS administrator expected to play? What types of background and education are required or even useful in the implementation of a PACS? This is the first in a series exploring

One pole holding up the PACS tent is the projected increase in technologist productivity. A survey sponsored last year by the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology, for instance, showed that shifting to a filmless environment can produce clear

Radiologists and trainees may be able to figure out basic workstation functions, but do they really grasp the big picture when it comes to PACS? Probably not -- but a system exhibited at RSNA's InfoRAD may offer a solution. Designed by longtime PACS

The world's rarest pet was sighted this week among the technical exhibits in McCormick Place South. Just behind the cafe, housed in a cage the size of a steamer trunk, was a Geoffrey's cat, or in this case, a Geoffrey's kitten.The Geoffrey's cat, named

The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative spent most of the first three years of its existence proving and promoting the concept of integration. This year's exhibit demonstrates its growing acceptance in medical informatics circles,

You're in the reading room when you spot an exam that would be perfect for a teaching file. What do you do? If your PACS is equipped to archive teaching files, you're in luck. PACS allows radiologists to quickly and easily store interesting teaching

Careful attention to setting up a PACS workstation can increase productivity, reduce fatigue, boost accuracy, and maximize the benefits of going digital, according to radiologists in Boston.In an educational exhibit at the RSNA meeting, Dr. Mukesh

eMed Technologies introduced an integrated RIS/PACS Sunday at the RSNA meeting. The new product, called eMed Entera, fuses medical imaging and information workflow. It was developed jointly with radiology information system maker Creative Computer

With increasing demand for imaging, many PACSs are experiencing a deluge of images and information. Techniques to identify body parts on specific images and to correlate images with the correct patients are integral to ensuring data integrity, according

PACS vendor Amicas unveiled a "visionary" technology today at the RSNA meeting, adding a new dimension to its approach for Web-based transmission and archiving of medical images. Presented as an end-to-end Web-based PACS platform, the Vision Series is

The development of a software tool using extensible markup language (XML) has allowed researchers in radiology informatics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to add visible light images to their PACS archive. But the availability of a digital

Philips Medical Systems launched what it describes as the next generation of medical IT systems today at the RSNA meeting. Called Vequion, this family of products is designed to streamline operations by integrating legacy IT systems and multiple

The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise initiative has raised the ante in the radiology casino. Enterprise integration is the new table stakes in radiology informatics, as vendors respond to their customers' need to integrate digital data traditionally

Firm specializes in buying 'mission-critical' castoffsThe planned acquisition of Philips' Healthcare Products Division (HCP) and the purchase on Nov. 19 of the diagnostic imaging (DI) division of PSS World Medical promises to

Worklist-driven Web-based architecture promises efficienciesPACS vendor Amicas plans to unveil a "visionary" technology at the RSNA meeting. While the new technology is built on past successes, the Vision Series PACS will add

Clearance of radiology devices boom in OctoberNot in a long time has the radiology industry fared so well with FDA reviewers as it did in October. In that month, the agency cleared 40 radiology devices. Over the past two years, the

Siemens and Philips go with multislice, GE banks on EBTCT hasn't yet reached the point of being truly competitive with cardiac cath, but it's close enough that vendors can sense a major market opportunity in the