HIPAA, managed care aid smart card entrée into U.S. healthcare marketU.S. firms go head-to-head with established European vendorsSmart cards, like voice recognition and wireless networking, belong to that “some day” group

Rorke, Konica expand OEM relationship to storage librariesRorke Data and Konica Medical Imaging have expanded their PACS OEM relationship to include Rorke’s advanced intelligent tape (AIT) storage libraries (PNN 11/99) in

VA’s Vista program achieves integration with GE CISThe U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Vista Interface Program and GE Marquette Medical Systems have developed interfaces that enable the Vista computerized patient record and

Dictaphone signs $30 million contract with U.S. ArmyDictaphone, a subsidiary of Lernout & Hauspie, has signed a contract worth up to $30 million with the Army Medical Department. Under terms of the deal, L&H Dictaphone Healthcare

Siemens shuffles SMS managers as part of firms’ integrationFollowing Siemens’ acquisition of Shared Medical Systems (HNN 5/17/00), the firms have implemented several management changes at SMS, now a part of Siemens Medical

ASPs draw standing-room-only crowds at AHRA meetingVendors stress Internet-based image managementDespite greater vendor participation and growing enthusiasm by hospitals for PACS and application service providers (ASPs), turnout was

Only three years ago, GE Medical Systems lost the highest profile lawsuit in the radiology industry when Fonar convinced a jury to order the multimodality company to pay $128.7 million in damages for patent infringement. Now the two companies have signed

Philips Medical Systems has announced it will move its 350-person North American headquarters next summer from Shelton, CT, to Seattle, a step that will put Philips’ offices next door to its ATL Ultrasound division and near the area’s

GE Medical Systems recently announced that it had purchased the world’s largest purveyor of used diagnostic imaging equipment.GE will take over Access Medical, which has sold thousands of used diagnostic imaging systems across the U.S. The

Agfa signs up Inphact to supply CR, PACS via ASPAgfa has signed a purchase and supply agreement with Nashville, TN-based Inphact to provide Agfa CR and PACS products, service, and support to community hospitals and clinics on an application

GE Medical to purchase cardiology systems firmGE Medical Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Micro Medical Systems, a Sioux Falls, SD-based provider of client-server and Web-based clinical applications for cardiology. Micro

Merge DICOM interface to go into Philips’ productsMerge Technologies has signed a long-term contract with Philips Medical Systems to supply its ExamWorks DICOM-based workflow product for integration into Philips’ surgical C-arm

European radiologists launch IHE-type integration initiativeGE, Philips, Siemens among first to joinThanks to open architectures designed as part of the multiyear Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) project, radiologists in the

Data ByteSome 1800 hospitals and imaging centers surveyed by Technology Marketing Group spent a total of $600 million on PACS technology in 1999, according to a study released by TMG last month. The Des Plaines, IL-based market research firm is

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Siemens isn’t concerned about sharing the dedicated extremity MR market with GE Medical Systems, even though GE may soon be selling E-Scan, a system very similar to Siemens’ Jazz. Siemens’ business leaders regard GE’s entry into the

The contrast media industry is highly competitive, but strategic partnerships between large and small companies offer consumers choices and consistent quality levels, according to a report about the world’s contrast media industry by healthcare

Technology Marketing Group has signed a three-year contract with AmeriNet to provide the healthcare purchasing organization with research and consulting services in diagnostic imaging and PACS. St. Louis-based AmeriNet represents 14,750 hospitals,

ATL Ultrasound is pleased with fellow ultrasound manufacturer Medison’s development of three midpriced systems and has extended a two-year-old strategic agreement between the companies. ATL markets the systems under its own logo.Korea-based Medison

With considerable fanfare, Siemens unveiled a sliding gantry version of its Somatom Plus 4 multislice CT system last week, installed in conjunction with a Primus linear accelerator at Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, NJ.The chairman of the