Siemens Medical Systems has formalized Ajit Singh's position as vice president of its Siemens Health Services division. Singh had been serving as interim vice president of the group since Reinhard Schmidt left the Iselin, NJ-based company to serve as

Firms will likely sell each other's products, howeverA corporate merger that many PACS market watchers had thought was a done deal fell apart last month when healthcare information technology firms Medasys Digital Systems and Citation Computer

PACS vendor Olicon Imaging Systems of Aliso Viejo, CA, has divested its teleradiology archiving program (TAP) and microfilm division to F.Y.I., a document and information outsourcing solutions company. Terms of the deal were not immediately released.

The Food and Drug Administration cleared Toshiba America Medical Systems' coincidence detection imaging software for its Toshiba E. Cam last month, according to Lin Sinclair, product manager for the company's nuclear medicine division. Toshiba's E.Cams

The medical imaging industry’s active pace of consolidation in 1998 has continued into 1999. With the new year less than two weeks old, film and PACS company Agfa of Ridgefield Park, NJ, has made a bid to acquire rival Sterling Diagnostic Imaging of

After several years of heated R&D advances, technology development in ultrasound is finally beginning to cool. Exhibitors toyed with the next great leap forward—real-time 3-D imaging—but none could manage it. Major and minor players showed

The arrival of new digital x-ray technology was evident at the December RSNA meeting as many vendors displayed digital radiography systems as commercial products for the first time. Established multimodality vendors showcased digital detectors as part of

This year’s RSNA meeting capped a banner year for CT technology development. The introduction of new multislice CT scanners has revitalized the modality in a way not seen since the introduction of spiral scanning in 1989. With subsecond scanning and

Manufacturers unveiled a dizzying array of technologies designed to extend the clinical reach of MR, as they prepare for a clinical future where flexibility and productivity may determine success or failure. Most advances were being prepped for

Nuclear medicine vendors rolled into the RSNA show confident in the strength of the technology advances in their exhibits and the health of the overall market. The U.S. nuclear medicine market exhibited robust growth in 1998, with vendors predicting that

Digital x-ray, multislice CT, and PACS highlight new technology developmentsA robust medical imaging market didn’t slow the growing trend toward consolidation among companies exhibiting at December’s Radiological Society of North America

PACS exhibits were among the most heavily attended at the 1998 meeting, as digital image and information management technology again generated much interest among attendees. Vendors at the RSNA show tended to highlight the work-flow capabilities of their

Despite continued disappointment at the Food and Drug Administration’s reluctance to clear full-field digital mammography systems, vendors at the RSNA conference were optimistic about the development of digital and other emerging technologies. In

Small PACS firms continue innovationLarger PACS vendors may have dominated the exhibit floor at this year's Radiological Society of North America meeting, but by no means did they hold a monopoly on innovative technology. Despite difficult market

Philips lands contract from Kaiser Permanente Philips Medical Systems has been awarded a three-year contract to supply x-ray equipment to Kaiser Permanente. In addition to providing Kaiser with cardiology, radiology/fluoroscopy, and surgery

ACR adds standards for PACS, teleradiologyThe American College of Radiology (ACR) has bolstered its standards relating to PACS and teleradiology. The Reston, VA-based organization has updated its Standard for Teleradiology and created a Standard

PACS takes forefront at RSNA show as interest surges in digital imagingLarge-scale purchases may be driven by digital x-ray technologyAttendees at the technical exhibits at December's Radiological Society of North America meeting found no

Agfa lands another DIN-PACS awardThe consortium led by Agfa Medical of Ridgefield Park, NJ, has recieved a large-scale PACS award from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., under the military's Digital Imaging Network-Picture

Medasys, Citation call off plans to combine businessesFirms will likely sell each other's products, howeverThe merger of French PACS vendor Medasys Digital Systems and Citation Computer Systems fell apart earlier this month. Regulatory

Japanese medical imaging vendor Shimadzu has become the latest MRI vendor to settle patent litigation with Fonar of Melville, NY. The two companies last month announced their settlement regarding Fonar's multiple-angle oblique (MAO) patent. Shimadzu