One of the industry's most promising PACS companies is planningto go public. Cemax-Icon of Fremont, CA, is laying the groundworkfor issuing an initial public offering in the next several months.Company officials aren't saying much about the offering, in

Project follows ATL grant for handheld ultrasoundUltrasound-guided surgery firm Tetrad and the ultrasound groupof Siemens Medical Systems are the lead companies in a consortiumthat has received a $3.2 million grant to develop a highly

Film and PACS vendor Agfa of Ridgefield Park, NJ, has promotedCaren Mason, the head of its technical imaging systems division,to a new position at corporate parent Bayer. Mason is now seniorvice president of Bayer Corporate Healthcare, where she will

Ongoing executive turmoil in the PACS industry has affected E-SystemsMedical Electronics. The San Antonio, TX, vendor has seen vicepresident of sales and marketing Larry Ware leave the company,as well as longtime executive David Salazar, who was

Trex Medical has finalized its acquisition of cardiac cath andangiography lab vendor XRE of Littleton, MA. Trex, of Danbury,CT, had announced earlier this year that it had signed a letterof intent to buy XRE (SCAN 2/28/96). In other news, Trex

Vendor hopes gamma camera will spearhead U.S. resurgenceThe nuclear medicine group of Siemens Medical Systems is hopingthat a new gamma camera introduced at this week's Society of NuclearMedicine meeting in Denver will help the company recapture

Anthony Lombardo is reportedly leaving his position as head ofLockheed Martin Western Development Laboratories Medical ImagingSystems, according to sources close to the Hoffman Estates, IL,PACS developer. Lombardo is a former veteran of Philips'

Siemens Medical Systems has tapped Dan Muehlfelder to head itsIntegrated Service Management program, the Iselin, NJ, vendor'seffort to provide multivendor service and other equipment managementprograms to customers (SCAN 12/13/95). Muehlfelder has

Toshiba America Medical Systems of Tustin, CA, will demonstrateprogress at the Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in its approachto dealing with two artifact phenomena: photon scatter and attenuation.While competitors have concentrated on the

Major vendors tie into cardiovascular society Web siteThe recent emergence of professional societies representing clinicaland cardiovascular MRI has stirred mixed emotions among manufacturerswho lobbied for the 1994 merger of MRI's overlapping

Eastman Kodak has entered into OEM deals with ISG Technologiesand Applicare Medical Imaging, continuing the Rochester, NY, company'strend toward outsourcing PACS components.In the Applicare deal, Kodak has accessed the Dutch PACS firm'sRadWorks PC-based

Multivendor ISO fills war chest to fund expansionLos Angeles-based independent service organization COHR expandedits presence in the MRI service sector this month by acquiringVision Medical Services of Ontario, CA.Vision was formed in 1993 and

Add Toshiba to the list of companies developing 3-D ultrasoundtechnology. The company's Toshiba Medical Systems Europe subsidiaryin Zoetermeer, the Netherlands, has announced that it has developeda new transducer for 3-D imaging in obstetric

3-D ultrasound scanner awaits U.S. clearanceKorean ultrasound manufacturer Medison has purchased a 60% interestin Austrian 3-D ultrasound developer Kretztechnik AG. The purchaseshould give Kretztechnik the staying power to weather what hasbeen

GE Medical Systems has acquired German ultrasound vendor KranzbuhlerMedizinische Systeme (KMS), a Solingen-based firm that has beenworking closely with the Milwaukee vendor since 1994. KMS employs93 people and had revenues of DM62 million ($40.6 million)

Eastman Kodak has entered into OEM deals with ISG Technologiesand Applicare Medical Imaging, continuing the Rochester, NY, company'strend toward outsourcing PACS components.In the Applicare deal, Kodak has accessed the Dutch PACS firm'sRadWorks PC-based

Toshiba protests alleged low-field restrictionsFed up with paying top dollar for what it says are inferior MRIservices, Blue Shield of Pennsylvania has implemented an accreditationprogram that will soon determine which freestanding and mobileMRI

MRI vendor Fonar is back in the black for the first time sinceMarch 1994. The Melville, NY, company posted financial resultsfor its third fiscal quarter (end-March) that show net incomeof $1.9 million, compared with a net loss of $903,000 in the

Did Milwaukee vendor try to steal Acuson's Sequoia thunder?GE Medical Systems has served notice that it is ready to keeppace with the leaders in the innovation-intensive ultrasound industry.The Milwaukee vendor on April 27 debuted a new

Vendor hires GE executive to run new programMultimodality vendor Siemens Medical Systems has formed a newdivision called Siemens Managed Healthcare Services to offer businessconsulting services to radiology departments and hospitals