Year 2 to focus more on text/image integration There were plenty of technical challenges to iron out in the first year of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise initiative, a collaboration between

Fred Prior, former director of integrated clinical solutions for Philips North America and an integral part of that company’s PACS and integrated systems programs, has left Philips to become CIO

PACS firms push Internet products and servicesTalk to modality imaging vendors and they will tell you that the trend toward electronic medical records is stimulating interest in integrated PACS and image

Voice-over-IP, WAP, and WML highlighted Wireless technology has always seemed a natural for mobile healthcare workers. In coming months, watch for this technology to offer even more convenience as

Healthcare facilities should begin planning to implement digital radiography, including a full digital information infrastructure such as a PACS. So says the latest edition of the Health Technology Forecast, which offers specific recommendations

Former ALI Imaging Systems president Anthony L. Lombardo has joined contrast agent manufacturer E-Z-EM in its top spot. The Westbury, NY-based company’s board of directors elected Lombardo president and CEO this month.Lombardo brings 28 years’

Toshiba Medical Systems has renewed and expanded a $10 million contract that provides imaging equipment to the more than 700 members of the MHA/MedEcon group purchasing organization. Toshiba will provide its Aquilion CT and Opart open MR systems,

MRI coil developer Surgi-Vision has added a second member to its family of miniature, minimally invasive MRI probes with FDA clearance of an endo- esophageal device, called Stylet. In the wake of this clearance, the Columbia, MD, company has begun

Equipment performance inevitably affects contrast agent performance; the quality of an image cannot be better than the scanner can deliver. This is especially true for intravascular MRI agents, which depend on hardware and software developments to reach

A marketing agreement between Marconi Medical Systems and Shimadzu will give Marconi a high-end CT system to add to its assortment of products, while enhancing its distribution channel in Japan.Marconi also announced acquisition of the remaining 50% of

GE Marquette Medical Systems has garnered two awards from research firm Frost & Sullivan for its use of market research: the Competitive Strategy Award and the Product Line Strategy Award.These awards are based on independent research and analysis of

Three key marketing people have left Mountain View, CA-based ultrasound manufacturer Acuson within the last month, further fueling speculation that the company is ripe for acquisition.Nancy Keuch-Rosa, 45, marketing director for Acuson’s PACS

Although GE Medical Systems was the only company at the American College of Radiology’s National Conference on Breast Cancer this month that sells digital mammography units in the U.S., other exhibitors showing their systems have already asked for

SAN vendors partner with PACS, HIS/RIS firmsWhile much attention has been focused recently on the growing interest in PC-based enterprise-wide image distribution, high-endnetwork architectures are

Partnerships and alliances abound at HIMSS meetingProcesses and services, not systems, were all the buzz at the annual meeting of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) in Dallas

Imaging software developer Amicas is going commercial with an online image management service that incorporates its Amicas Web-based PACS and systems integration capabilities (PNN 1/00). The

Toshiba America Medical Systems showcased two models of cardiac ultrasound systems, members of the company’s PowerVision family, at this year’s American College of Cardiology convention in March. The PowerVision 6000 was released two years ago

Under an agreement signed at the end of last month, Philips Medical Systems will supply general radiology equipment to Novation, supplier of medical equipment to Voluntary Hospital Association and the University Health Consortium. VHA is a nationwide

Imaging film company Agfa has acquired the Vari-X and VariCath cine film business from GE Marquette Medical Systems, a subsidiary of GE Medical Systems of Milwaukee. Ridgefield Park, NJ-based Agfa has manufactured the cine film that GE Marquette has

The Food and Drug Administration has recalled 15 Philips Medical Systems Tomoscan SR4000 CT scanners because of a defect that shows up when an image is reversed in the system’s databank, according to an FDA enforcement report. The defect in the