Royal Philips Electronics has taken an 80% stake in a joint venture with SHL TeleMedicine to develop new markets for cardiology telemedicine products and services across Europe. The goal is to establish medical call centers and remote

- IBM Japan and Toshiba have joined together with Japanese components manufacturer Taiyo Yuden to form a Bluetooth wireless venture for the Japanese market. The project will begin operations in April 2001.- 3Com and Extended Systems announced

Despite the virtual nature of data, usage has long been tied to physical forms of communication-paper, phone lines, cables, floppy disks, and the like. But the emerging wireless infrastructure has the power to make data more dynamic and

Imaging must be integrated into the enterprise information infrastructure if the process improvements possible with PACS are to be realized, according to a speaker at HIMSS Wednesday. Many of the benefits of PACS extend well beyond the radiology

Philips Medical Systems' ambition to lead the healthcare industry in clinical offerings is getting a big push from its purchase of two important imaging firms. The company finalized its acquisition of ADAC Laboratories in mid-December and is conducting

The obvious targets for merger and acquisition are gone. The flurry of purchases undertaken in 2000 pretty much cleared the deck of single-modality vendors. SMV is part of GE; ADAC Laboratories has become the nuclear medicine division of Philips; Agilent

Last summer Toshiba announced its decision to move MRI manufacturing to Japan and concentrate its R&D in South San Francisco, the home of Toshiba America MRI (TAMI) since it acquired Diasonics in 1988. The move would allow the company to partner with top

MRI providers seeking to accredit their facilities will soon have an option other than the American College of Radiology to provide that accreditation. Industry played an important part in developing this choice.The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission

An advanced radiation therapy system built by Siemens Medical has begun operating at Vietnam's National Cancer Institute in Hanoi. Accompanying the Primus linear accelerator are the Lantis Oncology Management System and Simview Simulator. The Hanoi

Given the growing number of healthcare organizations interested in moving their PACS capabilities outside of the radiology department, systems integration is emerging as a provocative market niche for PACS providers.Because the rest of the healthcare

Consultation between radiologists and referring physicians is part of routine medical practice, but this critical interaction can't occur electronically with PACS designs now in use.A system incubating in the research beds of the Radiology Informatics

After nearly 15 years in the PACS archive outsourcing business, Emerald Archiving is calling it quits. The company officially closed its doors in December. Emerald provided backfile image conversion services to help PACS customers make the

After just six months at the helm of Lernout & Hauspie-a tumultuous six months that included a hair-raising trek to Korea to recover $100 million in missing corporate funds-John Duerden has called it quits. L&H has appointed Philippe Bodson,

Sunquest Information Systems has signed a value-added reseller agreement with Talk Technology to market, sublicense, and support Talk Technology's TalkStation product for radiology and pathology. TalkStation Radiology will be integrated with

Five years from now, will there be IHE-like initiatives across all medical disciplines, paving the way for the first truly enterprise-wide electronic patient record? That is the vision of several Year 2 participants in the IHE committees and

Delft Instruments has increased its interest in Rogan Medical Systems from 35% to 52%. Rogan, which markets its PACS software worldwide under the name HyperPACS, will continue to trade as a separate Delft operating company. Rogan already

Image Technology Laboratories says it raised $1.3 million through an initial public offering completed in mid-January. The PACS company is now trading publicly on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbols IMTL, IMTLW, and IMTLZ. ITL claims to

Multibillion-dollar data storage provider EMC is riding the information technology wave into healthcare, hoping to achieve the kind of dominance it has attained in virtually every other vertical market it has entered. EMC launched a new

he high cost of PACS has traditionally kept many smaller community hospitals out of the digital market, but that may be changing. Cost is no longer the largest impediment to PACS implementation, according to one PACS administrator. "The trend is for

Five years from now, will Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise-like initiatives function across all medical disciplines, paving the way for the first truly enterprise-wide electronic patient record? That is the vision of several participants in the IHE