Siemens announced that it has Food and Drug Administration approval for a sliding gantry version of its Somatom Plus 4 CT system, which can be set up in a radiation therapy treatment room to give almost-real-time images to the radiation

GE Medical Systems unveiled the industry’s first flat-panel cardiology product Feb. 29 in a New York City press event designed to showcase the digital sensor technology—as well as the enormous promotional power of GE.Innova 2000, which received

AmeriNet, a membership-based healthcare group purchasing organization representing 1914 hospitals across the U.S., has entered into agreements in the last few months with diagnostic imaging and medical equipment companies Instrumentarium Imaging,

The political controversy swirling through Austria had little effect on technical exhibitors at this year’s European Congress of Radiology meeting. None of the preregistered vendors opted to cancel their booths and only a small number of scientific

Siemens AG Medical Engineering, based in Erlangen, Germany, introduced the Somatom Esprit CT scanner at the European Congress of Radiology, completing the company’s revamping of its entire CT lineup. Although the new spiral scanner will be marketed

The Big Picture: Working toward a ‘virtual PACS’By Kathy Kincade, editorYou can lead radiologists to the Internet, but can you make them PACS?That’s a question a growing number of vendors are asking themselves as they eye the

Despite predictions of huge market potential and assumptions that radiology departments were ripe for new filmless technologies, the promise of digital x-ray has been little more than that since the first products were introduced in the mid 1990s. Some

Florida, home of Epcot and NASA, is about to launch the largest filmless imaging center in the U.S. While other facilities may process more images annually, the Pensacola imaging center, a new 36,000-square-foot freestanding edifice, ranks as the largest

Image Medical moves image management onto the InternetNetwork offers online access, distribution, and archivingSeveral PACS vendors are turning to Web-based technologies to develop and implement cost-effective enterprise-wide image access

Acuson of Mountain View, CA, announced that company president and director Daniel Dugan resigned effective March 1. Former Acuson president Robert Gallagher will come out of retirement to serve as president and chief operating officer until sometime in

Analogic expands OEM focus to tap into integrated systems marketFirm sees new revenue opportunities in PACS and DRAs more medical device vendors opt to outsource as a way to expand their product lines into image and information

Cuba is an untapped market for radiology equipment vendors, especially those specializing in ultrasound, according to several companies attending the U.S. Healthcare Exhibition in Havana in January. The 97 companies at the exhibition—including

Siemens AG scrambled to deny a report this week in the Financial Times German edition that the company is planning “a radical restructuring.” The article implied that Siemens might sell several divisions, including its medical technology

GE Medical Systems had finalized its acquisition of Mecon, a developer of data mining and Internet-based benchmarking products for the healthcare field. Mecon, of San Ramon, CA, will now operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of GE. As a result of the

DoD extends DIN-PACS contract with InformaTechInformaTech, a provider of medical and information technology services, recently secured an extension of an existing telemedicine project and a new telemedicine contract. The company’s technical

Siemens Medical Systems has announced the promotion of Nancy Gillen to vice president of its magnetic resonance division, with responsibility for marketing the company’s MR systems in the U.S. Gillen replaces John Pavlidis, who was named group vice

Philips Medical Systems missed out on the initial boom in open MRI sales, but the Netherlands-based company is catching up fast. By the second quarter of this year, Philips expects to have several open-style Gyroscan Panorama units installed and

Vendor Profile: Algotec Systems: Algotec sees Internet as key to image management futurePACS vendor already developing e-health relationshipsAlgotec, an Israeli firm that has been specializing in PACS and Web-based image management since

GE Medical Systems has sold its first mobile positron emission tomography system to Mobile PET Systems, which plans to install it at the London PET Center this month. This sale follows the agreement signed between GE Medical and Mobile PET last year that

Cassling Diagnostic Imaging and Siemens Medical Systems have signed an agreement whereby Cassling will begin distributing several Siemens product lines, including mammography and mobile x-ray systems. Specific products include Siemens’ Mobilett and