Philips’ ADAC Laboratories and Elekta Oncology Systems have entered a global alliance to offer hospitals a clinical radiotherapy solution. The alliance will strive to integrate ePinnacle, a radiotherapy treatment planning system, with the Elekta

As part of its bankruptcy filing and subsequent reorganization, Comdisco could put its medical equipment leasing business on the block. The Rosemont, IL, company has filed a petition with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago seeking approval of bidding

Among the many ways that corporations hoped the Internet might save them money, no one considered its potential for reducing baggage—until Toshiba America.Rather than lug gamma cameras to the Toronto annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear

Shared Services Healthcare, a group purchasing organization, has renewed its contract with Agfa. Through this relationship, Agfa’s film products, family of imagers, ADC computed radiography (CR) systems, and IMPAX PACS are available to Shared

June was an off month for FDA clearances. Only six of the cleared devices acquire original image data: an MR scanner, an ultrasound system, a CT scanner, and three radiographic or radiographic/fluoroscopic products. The rest were upgrades to existing

GE Medical Systems celebrated the sale of its 12,000th AMX mobile x-ray unit. GE sells about 750 of the AMX model, which was introduced in 1987, annually. The 12,000th unit is in service at Elmbrook Memorial Hospital in Brookfield,

Full-field digital mammography is receiving a full-court press by imaging vendors, several of which are in various stages of device testing or FDA review. But regulatory approval is only the first hurdle. More serious is the challenge to show a clearcut

Probably the single most asked question in our PACS consulting services from clients is, "What are the requirements of a PACS administrator?" The next most frequently asked is, "Where can we find one?" These questions are then usually followed by, "What

PACS outages happen. Surviving the downtime often means retarding the meltdown. "PACS downtime is a touchy subject," said Sally Grady, director of diagnostic imaging at Florida Hospital in Orlando. "We all like to think it will never happen, but it

GE Medical Systems has installed its 1000th LightSpeed CT at Zentralkrankenhaus Links der Weser in Bremen, Germany. Introduced in 1998, LightSpeed was the world’s first commercial quad-slice CT

A Web-based electronic medical record developed by LanVision Systems has begun penetrating the marketplace under the tutelage of Siemens Medical Solutions. The Novius Imaging for Medical Records is being installed at Pinnacle Health System, a

Siemens last week unveiled a new premium performance ultrasound scanner, Sonoline Antares, which may be notable as much for its ergonomic design as its state-of-the-art digital components.Traditionally, vendors focus on the operational aspects of a new

Varian Medical Systems is betting that its flat-panel fluoroscopy products will spur customers to get off the sidelines and buy into the new era of digital x-ray. Varian strategists believe the company’s flat-panel detectors, based on amorphous

A whirlwind of new deals is swirling around Marconi Medical. The company, which has agreed to be acquired by Royal Philips Electronics (SCAN 7/9/01), will sell China-based Suzhou University $3 million in advanced imaging equipment, including its

Just months after much-ballyhooed coming out parties at the RSNA and HIMSS meetings, multibillion-dollar data storage provider EMC has pulled the plug on its healthcare vertical group.The company claims it is not turning its back on healthcare; rather,

HyperPACS, from Rogan Medical Systems, has been installed at the newly opened Medical Imaging Orchard—Total Diagnostic Centre and two other imaging centers in Singapore. The PACS connects a full range of modalities from MRI and CT to computed and

New features built into Acuson’s ultrasound PACS product, KinetDx, were highlighted at the 12th annual meeting of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE). Notable among the offerings was KinetDx Total Viewer, which enables physicians and

A new kind of research alliance is emerging between corporations and academic centers. Partnerships are replacing simpler agreements under which academic luminaries would test-drive equipment. Rather than taking what they get and doing the best they can

GE Medical Systems has taken the first step toward acquiring Kretztechnik, an Austria-based developer of 3-D ultrasound systems. GE has agreed to purchase approximately 65.4% of the company’s shares from Medison for ¤12 per share, cash.

Propelled by a favorable reimbursement climate, the telemedicine market is on the move, attracting new vendors and users. Many newcomers represent teleradiology and PACS companies with Web-based products for image transmission and archiving.“The