GE wins bid to install PACS at Louisiana Medical CenterGE's campaign to improve its penetration of the private-sector PACS market got a boost last month when the Milwaukee-based vendor announced that its Integrated Imaging Solutions unit had

PACS market moves at brisk pace as interest in technology growsStronger growth hindered by cost, long purchasing cycles For the last decade, the mantra of PACS market participants has been one familiar to any diehard sports fan: "Wait

Agfa returns fire in battle for lucrative DIN-PACS bidsPACS vendor formalizes dedicated MIL-PACS group The success of IBM's consortium in securing the first round of the U.S. military's Digital Imaging Network-Picture Archiving and

Fuji lands hospital as site for Synapse PACS productFuji Medical Systems USA has taken the next step in its quest to become a full-line PACS vendor with the signing of a beta-site agreement with the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, CT.

Questions remain about how Diasonics will be integratedIt's a horse race at the top of the ultrasound market. GE Medical Systems finalized its acquisition of Diasonics Vingmed Ultrasound this month, giving GE a legitimate shot at claiming the

James Beckett has been promoted to group director of MR/CT marketing for Philips Medical Systems North America of Shelton, CT. Beckett fills a position made vacant by the departure of Christopher Farr, who was named head of the vendor's Canadian

Company pushes performance of spiral technologySiemens Medical Systems is pushing the limits of spiral CT technology in its quest to develop cardiac imaging applications for the modality. The Iselin, NJ, vendor has begun shipping SubSecond Cardio

Toshiba America Medical Systems of Tustin, CA, has announced that it will be reorganizing the business development and marketing functions of its technology services business unit. As part of the restructuring, Toshiba has tapped GE Medical Systems

R2 Technology landed a big fish this month when the developer of mammography computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) workstations signed an exclusive OEM supply deal with GE Medical Systems of Milwaukee. GE has agreed to bundle R2's ImageChecker workstation with

Determined to catch up with rival IBM, Agfa of Ridgefield Park, NJ, has formed a team dedicated to securing PACS contracts to military facilities under the Defense Imaging Network-Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (DIN-PACS) project. Agfa's

Italian biomedical firm Esaote of Genoa has completed its acquisition of Pie Medical from Philips Medical Systems of Best, the Netherlands (SCAN 2/4/98). Pie paid $21.3 million for Pie, which is based in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and

Ultrafast CT developer Imatron of South San Francisco, CA, enjoyed sharply higher revenues in 1997 (end-December), but the company still posted an $11.4 million loss for the year due to expenses. For the year, Imatron reported sales of $39.4 million, an

Company is also hit with shareholder lawsuitEmbattled independent service organization COHR found itself under siege last week following a highly critical article in the financial newsweekly Barron's that prompted a sharp drop in the

Digital radiography developer Swissray International has signed an agreement with Agfa to distribute the film and PACS vendor's laser imagers, dry printers, and computed radiography systems. The OEM deal allows New York City-based Swissray to offer a

ADAC Laboratories of Milpitas, CA, and Siemens Medical Systems of Hoffman Estates, IL, have been named the preferred vendors in a dual-source group buy of nuclear medicine equipment issued by group purchasing organization Premier. Premier members are

Agfa Medical has received a letter of intent for a large-scale Impax installation from the University of Maryland Medical System. The Ridgefield Park, NJ-based film and PACS company will use the Impax network to link up the hospital's radiology, ER, and

Both vendors hope to offer "one-stop" cardiac studyThe rapid advances being made in cardiac MRI technology were evident at last month's American College of Cardiology meeting in Atlanta. The reality of cardiac MRI is finally starting to catch up

GE Medical Systems has announced a program designed to address its customers' Year 2000 needs. While it expects that the majority of its installed base will not encounter any Year 2000 issues, the Milwaukee vendor is offering a Year 2000 warranty on new

Merge sales surge in 1997Connectivity firm Merge Technologies appears to be benefiting from the coming of age of the PACS market. The Milwaukee, WI-based company posted a 52% increase in revenues for 1997.For the fourth quarter (end-December),

The nuclear medicine group of Siemens Medical Systems announced that it shipped its 100th ECAT Exact PET camera in March. The camera will be installed at the Rhoen Clinic in Bad Berka, Germany, according to the Hoffman Estates, IL-based division. With