Banking on the future of electronic medical records, Siemens is investing $2.1 billion to purchase Shared Medical Systems, a provider of healthcare information systems and networking services. Under terms of the agreement, which already has the thumbs-up

Five of seven GE PET Advance scanners purchased by Mobile P.E.T. Systems will travel thousands of miles around the U.S. as systems are placed in Northern and Southern California, Ohio, Florida, and Texas.The two remaining positron emission tomography

Armed with a second FDA approval for its electron beam scanner and three times the sales force of a year ago, company officials at South San Francisco-based Imatron say that after years of trying to sell the medical community on its technology, they have

GE Medical Systems and Ohio State University are collaborating to develop an institute where researchers on OSU’s Columbus campus can address medical imaging issues that cross several medical specialties, including cardiology, radiology, oncology,

Image Systems claims to have shipped its first Display Link Workstations directly to end users in late April. The direct sales approach and bundling of products mark a new direction for Image Systems,

VR, dictation, transcription convergingThe number of vendors exhibiting voice recognition products was small at this year’s HIMSS meeting, but those who did emphasized the growing ability of VR to be

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