While many publicly traded healthcare technology companies are struggling to satisfy investors these days, Agfa-Gevaert has definitely seized the opportunity provided by its 1999 IPO. The company is reporting better-than-expected financials again for the

After a year that saw Bothell, WA-based SonoSite partner with ultrasound giant ATL and that saw the company’s flagship product, a handheld digital ultrasound system, purchased by the 19 member countries of NATO for battlefield use

After a dozen years at the helm of Merge Technologies, PACS and connectivity veteran Bill Mortimore has turned over the reins to Richard Linden. The move comes as part of a management restructuring that makes Linden president and CEO and Mortimore

Like feelers, the digital fingers of the PACS revolution have spread to medical specialties other than radiology. One finger has taken root in echocardiography. Some cardiologists believe that current video methods of viewing, transferring, and archiving

Agfa bolsters Asian PACS presence with new management and strategyCooke to head up global Impax business groupWhile many publicly traded healthcare technology companies are struggling to satisfy investors these days, Agfa-Gevaert has

Merge appoints new CEO as firm eyes integrated futureConnectivity vendor targets enterprise opportunitiesAfter a dozen years at the helm of Merge Technologies, PACS and connectivity veteran Bill Mortimore is stepping into a new role.

Once a radiology facility makes the decision to install PACS, it becomes necessary to marshal a team to oversee the filmless migration. When installation is complete and the project team officially disbands, PACS still needs an overseer, an

Using the polyglot of digital medical data to maximum patient advantage requires a Rosetta stone to integrate various enterprise-wide information systems -- a monumental task that is being addressed by an industry initiative called Integrating the

Siemens has integrated its moving MRI patient table and panoramic array coils with control software to create a system capable of scanning multiple areas of a patient without interruption. The software package, called Integrated Panoramic Positioning

Toshiba America Medical Systems has restructured its sales and marketing organization, creating a matrix system with a strategic focus on end users running across all imaging modalities, according to Scott Eaton, director of the imaging center market

Information Technologies integrates multiple divisionsGE Medical Systems has joined the ranks of companies rushing to provide electronic patient records. The firm has formed a subsidiary—GE Medical Systems Information Technologies—that

SMV’s Positrace, the first commercially available PET/CT system, obtained FDA 510(k) clearance Sept. 1, just days before the European Association of Nuclear Medicine meeting began in Paris.Although GE Medical Systems has a 510(k) clearance for its

No firm starting date as competitive group emergesThe large group of medical equipment and products companies that make up the Global Health Care Exchange still plan to go online sometime this fall but have put back the date. They hope to reach 40

GE Medical Systems announced last week that it has completed its acquisition of OneSource Services. OneSource, founded in 1997, provides clinical services to healthcare facilities’ in-house, multivendor, and OEM service organizations, and has

Siemens AG and TransScan Medical have signed an extension of their agreement allowing Siemens to market the TS2000 breast scanning system, which has two FDA clearances for use as an adjunct to mammography.Under terms of the multiyear agreement, Siemens

A spate of publicity in the general press has increased the public’s awareness of and demand for whole-body ultrafast CT screening technology for a wide variety of maladies. But industry and professional representatives working with this technology

GE Medical Systems and Elscint have reached an agreement in which GE will acquire Elscint’s 50% share of ELGEMS, a joint venture formed in 1997 by the two companies to manufacture nuclear imaging systems, for $30 million.As a result of the

Facing several class action lawsuits and questions concerning revenue from its Korean business, Belgian speech-recognition firm Lernout & Hauspie announced that long-time president and CEO Gaston Bastiaens has stepped down. John Duerden, formerly

L&H replaces CEO amid lawsuits and shareholder concernsHead of Healthcare Solutions named chief execFacing several class action lawsuits and questions concerning revenue from its Korean business, Belgian firm Lernout & Hauspie

GE Medical forms new subsidiary to link patient data across enterpriseIT firm plans to integrate multiple information systemsGE Medical Systems of Waukesha, WI, is joining the ranks of vendors rushing to provide a workable electronic