Vendors begin preparations for looming “slice war”For much of 1999, the only company commercially shipping multislice CT systems has been GE Medical Systems. But the Milwaukee, WI-based company no longer has a monopoly on the

Firms vie for position in OCT and fluorescenceLight-based imaging technologies are beginning to make progress on the long path to commercialization. Systems employing one such approach, optical coherence tomography (OCT), have already been

Swissray adds Hitatchi Medical as partner for digital x-ray, PACSHitatchi will market ddR Multi-System in parts of U.S.In its continuing bid to boost its market presence, digital radiography developer Swissray International last month

Samsung finalizes Raypax beta siteKorean PACS firm Samsung has announced that Palo Alto Medical Clinic has agreed to be the beta site for the company’s Raypax PACS product. The clinic will be Samsung’s first U.S. installation of Raypax

The Big Picture:Web technology proliferates in PACSBy Erik L. Ridley, EditorThe use of the World Wide Web in the PACS realm continues to expand, and many vendors are devoting increasing resources to bringing these capabilities to their product

Dynamic Healthcare lands PACS/RIS dealsHIS and PACS firm Dynamic Healthcare Technologies has landed several orders for its RIS and PACS products. The Lake Mary, FL-based company has sold its Dynamic PACSPlus system to Marquette General Hospital

Picker bolsters PACS operationsPicker International has been active in building its Image Management division, adding new staff and reconfiguring its business. Beccie Mendenhall has been promoted to manager of a newly created solutions group,

Applicare books record revenuesDutch PACS software firm Applicare Medical Imaging has posted impressive results for the first eight months of 1999. During this period, the GE Medical Systems subsidiary doubled the total installed base it had at

GE Medical Systems has signed an agreement to supply its PET scanners to Mobile P.E.T. Systems. The deal gives GE access to Mobile P.E.T.’s network of clients, while Mobile P.E.T. can employ GE’s service program and clinical and technical

Amicas finalizes Sunquest dealWeb-based PACS developer Amicas and RIS firm Sunquest Information Systems have formalized their relationship. The two companies, which showed integration work at the 1998 RSNA meeting (PNN 1/99), have wrapped

Company views Internet/Web as central to its futureTeleradiology and miniPACS provider Access Radiology has changed its name to eMed Technologies and announced its intention to go public.The name change was designed to reflect the vendor’s

Merge plans acquisition of InterpraFirm gears up to meet needs of IHE initiativeMarket interest is growing in implementing integrated image and information management systems. Nowhere is that attitude as pronounced as in the Integrating

Analogic hires Miller as president and CEOAnalogic has appointed medical imaging industry veteran Thomas Miller as president and CEO. Miller joins Analogic from Carl Zeiss of Thornwood, NY, where he served as president and CEO, as well as world

PACS moves to forefront at AHRA national meetingLimited exhibit hours discourage some vendors, howeverBy Michael J. Cannavo, president, Image Management ConsultantsTrue to the explorer whose name it bears, the Coronado Ballroom yielded a

Vidar seeks growing role for CCD-based digitizersFirm highlights economics, image quality of CCD technologyLaser film scanners have long been the gold standard for digitizing film for the PACS and teleradiology marketplaces. But digitizers

Access plans initial stock offering and becomes eMed TechnologiesCompany plans launch of Web sites co-branded with customersTeleradiology and miniPACS provider Access Radiology is about to enter a new era. The company has changed its

Agreement expands Swissray’s distribution reachIn its continuing bid to boost its market presence, digital radiography developer Swissray International last month signed a wide-ranging distribution agreement with Hitachi Medical Systems

Analogic has a new leader, and it’s a familiar name to medical imaging industry veterans. Longtime Siemens employee Thomas Miller will be joining the Peabody, MA-based firm as president and CEO in October. Miller has most recently served as

Pegasus Imaging wins OEM dealsCompression developer Pegasus Imaging has added two OEM agreements to its portfolio. Siemens Health Services and Siemens Medical Engineering Group of Erlangen, Germany, have chosen the vendor’s wavelet image

MDT makes bid for Web-based PACS firmAcquisition of TIMS would mark entry into digital image managementMR imaging center operator Medical Device Technologies has taken a preliminary step toward entering the PACS market. The San