Dennis Constantinou has joined Toshiba America Medical Systems as senior director of product marketing. Constantinou, a 20-year veteran of the medical devices industry, will develop and monitor Toshiba’s ongoing marketing efforts to focus on

While workstations have matured along with PACS, the confusion surrounding them has not gone away. The question arises early and often in filmless hospitals: whether and when to use 2K (2048 x 2560 pixels) monitors instead of the older 1K (1280 x 1024

Birds of a medical feather flock together at the RSNA, Society for Computer Applications in Radiology, and other industry meetings, but systems users and administrators are apt to reap more benefit from a PACS user group, or PUG. Historically, user

In the wake of a week that saw the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act first scuttled, then resurrected, experts are advising their clients to steer a steady course.On Monday, April 9, HIPAA faced an uncertain future. That day, four

The digital influence of PACS can be found more and more in cardiology, where it's beginning to change the way cardiologists run their practice. Cardiologists see cardiac MRI, for instance, playing a major role over the next five years, according to a

Philips Medical Systems has appointed Gary Burbach chief executive officer of ADAC Laboratories. ADAC, a vendor of nuclear medicine equipment and radiation therapy planning systems, was acquired by Philips in December 2000. Prior to the acquisition,

Siemens Medical has been hard at work this past year, repackaging itself as a “solutions” provider, and combining innovation and clinical know-how into a kind of technocorporate gestalt. For a company rooted deeply in engineering, this is no

ProAct Medical, a provider of PACS and information technology storage solutions for healthcare providers, has become part of GE Medical Systems IT. ProAct Medical, a division of ProAct IT Group, distributes GE’s PACS product to Scandinavian

Mammography systems operating in the U.S. must meet stiffer performance regulations beginning Oct. 28, 2002. If they don’t, the FDA will shut them down as part of the mandate contained in the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA).The

In an unusual agreement, imaging giant Siemens Medical Systems has joined forces with Cardiovascular Consultants (CC), a large medical group specializing in cardiovascular disease, to develop imaging protocols for three modalities the new partners

The convergence of multiple sources of data, the networking of several database servers, and the expanded use of Web technology promise to integrate cardiology to the main flow of medical practice. As with radiology-based PACS, which was the first

GE Medical Systems has moved quickly to turn technology acquired last fall into a commercial foot in the door — this time in the clinical information systems market. The company has launched a national marketing effort to support its Integriti

Siemens Medical Solutions has joined Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) as a principal equity member. GHX is an Internet-based trading exchange intent on building an industry-standard catalog from which hospitals can purchase both medical and nonmedical

Image Medical has released PracticeBuilder 3.0, a modular PACS and teleradiology system. The Internet-enabled, enterprise-wide image management system includes features designed to increase radiologist productivity and referring physician access, while

Replacing the image intensifier with a digital flat-panel detector last year made it possible for GE’s Innova product to run MRI along side cardiac cath. Flat-panel sensors are not vulnerable to magnetic waves, as are conventional image

Anyone involved with making physical changes to PACS components, such as adding a viewing station, replacing a device that has broken, or temporarily rerouting images to another workstation, knows that it can be extremely difficult. The reason is that

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Job Code: 736Department: RadiologyGrade: 130Title: PACS AdministratorDate: 2001 Scope of Position* Reporting in a line capacity to the senior manager, radiology computing and information sciences, the incumbent is responsible for leading the

Other than the few medical centers who pioneered the migration to PACS, most hospitals lack the internal expertise to develop a comprehensive digital imaging business plan, create medical imaging architectures, select vendors, and implement PACS.Many

Handheld ultrasound requires a leap of faith as much as it does technology. Intuitively, the idea seems brilliant: Shrink an ultrasound scanner so it can be worn on your belt, strapped to your shoulder, or carried by hand into places where ultrasound