AT&T's merger with computer firm NCR will have no immediateimplications for AT&T's picture archiving and communicationssystems business, said Stephen G. Chappell, director of AT&TMedical Systems. Agreement on the merger was reached this
AT&T's merger with computer firm NCR will have no immediateimplications for AT&T's picture archiving and communicationssystems business, said Stephen G. Chappell, director of AT&TMedical Systems. Agreement on the merger was reached this month.
NCR focuses largely on the supply of computers into retailingand banking applications. While the two companies could conceivablycooperate in the future use of computer technology for medicalimaging applications, AT&T plans to let the NCR business continueoperating autonomously, Chappell said.
"AT&T's approach to this merger is that they (NCR)are doing well without us, and we shouldn't smother that,"he said.
The CommView PACS business will remain in AT&T, he said.
"We may talk to them (NCR) to see if they have anythingthat is relevant (to PACS)," Chappell said. "But wewill not overwhelm them, and they will not take CommView. It isgoing to be a slow merger."
AT&T and Philips Medical Systems, its PACS partner in theCommView project, announced plans in January to reorganize theirjoint medical effort with the aim of reducing costs and avoidingredundant expenditures (SCAN 1/30/91).
AT&T trimmed its medical staff at that point, but remainsinvolved and interested in the PACS business, Chappell said.
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