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Merge Healthcare announced that Merge iConnect® will be featured at the HIMSS12 Interoperability Showcase (booth #11000) at this year's HIMSS conference in Las Vegas, February 21-24.
"We're proud that iConnect is part of the Interoperability...
The Siemens Healthcare Sector has maintained its position in the field of medical technology despite a tough business environment. "In past years, we've expanded our product portfolio and even more consistently aligned it to customer needs," said...
Siemens Healthcare has appointed and promoted two new members of staff to strengthen its Managed Equipment Services (MES) team. Clive West will join the team as Technical Manager and Neil Cook will focus on MES group project realisation as...
Merge Healthcare today announced Radiology Ltd. will implement its full, end-to-end suite of radiology solutions at its nine imaging centers across southern Arizona.
"Radiology Ltd. is a leader in medical imaging," said Jeff Surges, CEO, Merge...
Canon Europe has announced its acquisition of Netherlands-based Medical solutions specialist Delft Diagnostic Imaging (Delft DI). Delft DI specialises in two business areas. The first area is innovative medical software solutions for sharing digital...
BMI The Clementine Churchill Hospital in Harrow has migrated to digital mammography for the first time, following the installation of a MAMMOMAT Inspiration™ from Siemens Healthcare. The system replaces a previously installed...
Shimadzu, worldwide manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment, has released the new multipurpose system BRANSIST alexa. It is available in two versions: the ceiling-mounted system C12 and the floor-mounted system F12. ...
Royal Cornwall Hospital, part of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has taken installation of an advanced multi-axis interventional imaging system, the Artis zeego™ from Siemens Healthcare. Located in the new state...
Hologic, Inc. today announced that Conceptus, Inc.'s (Conceptus) request for an injunction barring future sales of Hologic's Adiana permanent contraception (Adiana) system has been denied and that no royalty will be due to Conceptus on such...
Carestream and its subsidiaries were awarded 47 patents in 2011 for innovations in its radiology imaging and healthcare IT, dental imaging and molecular imaging products from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office....
Siemens Healthcare has launched five new mobile solutions that help provide imaging specialists and referring physicians with secure access to diagnostic images and reports, both inside and outside the hospital. These next-generation IT solutions...
Philips and the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam (the Netherlands) announced that they have signed an agreement to install one of Philips’ Ingenuity TF PET/MR (Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance) scanners at...
Impact Corelab has announced the appointment of two new members to its board of directors, both from affiliated company Radiological Associates of Sacramento (RAS), with key specialties and sub-specialties relevant to the company's focus areas....
Covidien has announced plans to spin off its pharmaceuticals business into a standalone public company. Covidien’s pharmaceuticals business is one of the world’s largest producers of bulk acetaminophen, the largest United...
Schiller India, a Swiss joint venture company in the field of medical diagnostics has tied up with NeuroLogica Corporation, U.S. which deals in medical imaging equipment. According to Sudip Bagchi, Associate Vice President, Radiology, “...
The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust has installed a MAGNETOM® Aera 1.5 Tesla MRI system from Siemens Healthcare in its Sutton site. It is being used for a wide range of clinical imaging including brain, spine, abdominal, pelvic and...
With a score of 94.4 out of 100, Elekta's Leksell Gamma Knife® Perfexion™ ranked at the top among six advanced radiation therapy systems, according to KLAS research firm's recently released customer survey, Radiation Therapy...
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, part of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, has installed a MAGNETOM® Avanto 1.5 Tesla from Siemens Healthcare. The system featuring Tim (Total imaging Matrix) will enable the hospital to...
Sectra reported a profit after tax of SEK 340.0 million for the six-month period, May – October 2011, including the operation being discontinued. The profit includes a preliminary capital gain of SEK 322.6 million generated by the divestment...
The radiation oncology department at internationally renowned Addenbrooke's Hospital (Cambridge, U.K.) is upgrading its radiotherapy capabilities with Elekta therapy systems, oncology information system (OIS) and image guided workspace....
Merge Healthcare, a provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, today announced the addition of two industry executives to lead key growth areas. Peter Urbain has joined Merge Healthcare as its Senior Vice President of Partner...
Siemens Healthcare has unveiled the ACUSON S3000™, a new ultrasound system at the Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The system is stated to feature advanced automated ultrasound...
Findings presented during the RSNA have shown that unlike mammography, Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI), also known as Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI), is as effective in detecting breast cancer in women with dense and non-dense breasts....
At the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), November 27 to December 2 in Chicago, USA, Siemens Healthcare is introducing its next-generation Biograph mCT, a PET-CT scanner that enables...
Philips today announced it has achieved 100 shipments of its Ingenia magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, a digital broadband MRI solution. An illustration of Philips Imaging 2.0 concept, the Ingenia is driven by the development of...
PACSGEAR, a provider of imaging connectivity for electronic health records, today announced the PACSGEAR Enterprise Imaging Platform, a suite of solutions designed to capture, cache, stream and integrate photographic images and medical videos...
On the heels of FDA approval of the first aortic heart valve placed without open-heart surgery, TeraRecon will showcase its iNtuition™ advanced visualisation tools to support physicians involved in TAVI and EVAR, at the 38th Annual VEITH...
Siemens Healthcare is launching Agenda 2013, a global initiative to grow its innovative capacity and make itself more competitive. Agenda 2013 is the Sector’s proactive response to the challenges emerging from a changing market environment. To...
At this year’s MEDICA, being held in Düsseldorf, Germany, 16 – 19 Philips will be showcasing a number of innovations from its new Mother & Child Care business, which are designed to support developmental care, from the...
Siemens Healthcare recently held a successful series of hands-on training workshops for clinical users at the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) Annual Meeting in Edinburgh. The practical sessions are part of a range of workshops run by...
Sectra has announced the signing of a multi-year Master Research Agreement with University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland, USA. UH and Sectra will collaborate to develop solutions and enhancements in medical imaging with the goals of improving...
Sectra has signed a five-year agreement for a complete radiology IT solutions with the two-site regional hospital Gelre Ziekenhuizen in the Netherlands. The fully integrated solution will ultimately result in shorter waiting times and more rapid...
At the Journées Françaises de Radiologie (JFR) 2011, Agfa HealthCare is showing its most comprehensive digital radiography portfolio ever. These solutions address a broad diversity of imaging needs, delivering productivity and workflow...
The Portland Hospital for Women and Children is benefiting from increased image quality across multiple disciplines following the installation of an ACUSON S2000™ ultrasound system from Siemens Healthcare. The system will be...
PACSGEAR has announced an expanded strategy to combine medical images from all departments with electronic health records. The “PACS 2.0” initiative is the evolution of medical image connectivity to include integration with the...
On September 23, 2011 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued 510(k) approval letter for the Planmed Nuance Excel full-field digital mammography system. Planmed Nuance Excel FFDM System combines fast examination time, low radiation dose,...
Voice Technologies has developed a new interface based on SpeechMagic for the HSS CRIS Radiology Information System, the national radiology system for the NHS in England, in use in 80% of hospitals throughout the UK.
Voice Technologies worked with...
Luminos Agile is Siemens’ first under-table X-ray system with a flexible height-adjustable table. Patients with mobility issues will now find it easier to mount the table, while staff will be able to perform procedures on patients during...
National Services Scotland (NSS) has commenced a major PACS upgrade programme strengthening its successful relationship with Carestream Health with the signing of a Change Control Notice (CCN) to the current contract held between the two...
GE Healthcare, the health business of General Electric (NYSE: GE), announced today its plans to dedicate $1 billion of its total R&D budget over the next five years to expand its advanced cancer diagnostic and molecular imaging capabilities...
Carestream Health have announced that their new DRX-Revolution Mobile X-Ray System will be on display at the upcoming meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. The DRX-Revolution system will be available in the U.S. contingent upon FDA...
TeraRecon today invited interventional specialists to “Intervene with iNtuition”, via iNtuition CLOUD, an advanced volumetric visualization solution, delivered via the Internet, for interventional professionals attending CIRSE 2011, the...
Canon has announced the availability of three new additions to its flat panel Digital Radiography (DR) detector range, extending the mobility, versatility and high resolution diagnostic imaging capabilities available to medical institutions. Each of...
Carestream Health announced it is taking orders for an upgraded version of its CR-based image acquisition and mini-PACS solution which performs web-based patient scheduling, fully featured image review and reporting as well as offering flexible...
Patient safety has come to the forefront as an issue that requires serious attention, and governments, patient groups, hospitals and healthcare professionals have responded. Patients themselves are increasingly focused on quality of care — and...
Sectra has completed a mammography-modality deal with Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG). Philips will pay EUR 57.5 million in a cash-on-cash and debt-free basis and take over the acquired modality operation today, September 1...
Carestream Health has shipped its 2,500th wireless DRX detector, the company announced today. Each DRX detector can be used in multiple systems at a facility. For example, a detector can be used in a mobile unit for early morning rounds at a...
Philips has announced the availability of Xcelera R3.2, the latest release of its multimodality cardiology image management, analysis and reporting solution. Now shipping, Philips Xcelera R3.2 delivers vital patient information across the care...
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (Houston, Texas, USA) and Philips have collaborated to develop new imaging technology that could be used to help identify the start and cause of an infectious disease epidemic.
King Li, M.D., radiology...
Metamark Genetics, a privately-held oncology molecular diagnostic company and Definiens have announced a development and commercialisation partnership in which Metamark will combine its proprietary multiplex protein detection platform with image...
Freeman Hospital, part of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has installed a SOMATOM® Definition AS CT with syngo®.via to assist with flexibility and increased patient throughput. It is hoped the new CT...
Bracco has announced that it has received approval to manufacture and market PROTOCO2L in Japan, a carbon dioxide insufflation system, for use in Japan, as a medical device in CT colonography.
The PROTOCO2L device provides a controlled insufflation...
Royal Bournemouth Hospital, part of the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has installed a MAGNETOM® Aera 1.5 Tesla MRI system from Siemens Healthcare. The system is replacing another from Siemens and is...
Sectra and Royal Philips Electronics have signed an agreement under which Philips will acquire Sectra’s mammography modality operations. The cash purchase consideration amounts to EUR 57.5 million on cash and debt-free basis. The agreement...
Toshiba America Medical Systems announced that it is a winner of the sixth annual Performance Award, presented by the Premier healthcare alliance. Premier has contracts with more than 800 suppliers, and Toshiba is one of 38 contracted suppliers...
The Regional Medical Centre at Memphis (The MED) of Memphis, Tenn., has purchased Carestream Health's VueRIS with embedded voice recognition to achieve more efficient scheduling and reporting for all radiology exams including mammography...
Unilabs Norway AS in Oslo, a leading private healthcare provider, is now offering women the opportunity to combine their mammography examination with osteoporosis detection in a single examination using Sectra's online service. In this way...
Carestream Health has been awarded the contract to implement a digital imaging solution at the Department of Image Diagnosis and Intervention Radiology at the Regional Specialist Hospital in Radom, Poland. The deal covers full digitisation of...
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), supported by the UCLH Charity, has placed the first UK order of the Biograph™ mMR system from Siemens Healthcare. The system, which is the same size as a...
Elekta and ScandiDos AB have entered into a non-exclusive global agreement to distribute ScandiDos's Delta4PT quality assurance (QA) tool. Delta4PT can be used with Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) and Volumetric Modulated...
Philips and e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) have signed an agreement to distribute and promote online learning, via the Philips Learning Centre, to healthcare professionals around the world.
e-LfH partners with a number of professional...
PACSGEAR, a provider of imaging connectivity for electronic health records, today announced that Eli Rapaich has joined PACSGEAR as its new chief executive officer. Rapaich succeeds PACSGEAR co-founder Brian J. Cavanaugh, who will assume the role of...
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (“TMSC”) and Vital Images, Inc. (Nasdaq: VTAL) (“Vital”) have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which a subsidiary of TMSC will acquire all of the outstanding shares of common...
Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, part of NHS Lothian's University Hospitals Division, has installed a SOMATOM® Definition AS+ CT from Siemens Healthcare and ordered its syngo®.via imaging software for rapid multi-...
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, part of NHS Grampian, has installed a second Symbia® S SPECT system with IQ•SPECT from Siemens Healthcare to enhance its cardiac offering in the hospital. It combines state-of-the-art image quality with...
Carestream Health is conducting pre-launch testing of the new Intel® Xeon® processor E7 product family in its medical image management, archiving and distribution systems. These tests indicate the new high-performance processors can...
Shimadzu, a worldwide manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment, has introduced the first wireless flat-panel detector (FPD) for its mobile, fully digital X-ray system MobileDaRt Evolution. It has been designed to better enable X-ray personnel to...
Philips Electronics and Corindus Inc. today announced an alliance agreement to add Corindus’ robotic-assisted system for the minimally invasive treatment of obstructed coronary arteries to Philips’ interventional cardiology solutions....
Stepping Hill Hospital, part of the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, has installed two MAMMOMAT Inspiration™ full field digital mammography systems to enhance its imaging capabilities at the same time as meeting the increasing demand for...
Delivering Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) effectively and safely involves careful coordination of sophisticated systems, such as the therapy machine and its imaging subsystems, as well as the electronic medical record (EMR) used to...
Siemens Healthcare is providing the medical imaging community with informative education sessions that are regularly held in the UK. Siemens offers a range of courses tailored to the needs of radiographers and radiologists through to...
Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Terarecon's European iNtuition CLOUD datacenter has been brought online to coincide with the 2011 ECR meeting. This European iNtuition CLOUD node will be automatically selected when users access their iNtuition CLOUD...
TeraRecon, winner of the 2010 Frost & Sullivan “Company of the Year Award” for European Advanced Visualization Applications, highlighted the interoperability, scalability, mobility and multi-site capability of its flagship...
At the European Congress of Radiology 2011, Carestream Health is showcasing a variety of radiology & IT solutions designed to enhance quality, productivity, cost containment and simplified workflows. At Booth 210, Expo B, you can find the...
PACSGEAR, a provider of imaging connectivity for electronic health records, has announced the relocation of its main office. The company’s new headquarters, located in Pleasanton, California, accommodates continued global growth,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reversed course on one of the first radiology apps ever pulled from the Apple Store and has now cleared the first smartphone app that can be marketed for diagnosis, the Mobile MIM reader, made by Cleveland-...
Philips has announced that it has received CE marking, which allows Philips to make the Ingenuity TF PET/MR – the industry’s first commercially available, whole body PET/MR imaging system – commercially available in Europe....
Hologic, a developer, manufacturer and supplier of products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, has expanded its portfolio of non-invasive gynecological solutions by acquiring Interlace Medical, the developer and manufacturer of the...
GE Healthcare has completed the tender offer by GE’s wholly owned subsidiary, Crane Merger Sub, Inc., for all outstanding shares of common and preferred stock of Clarient Inc.. Clarient provides pathologists and oncologists with access to key...
Philips and Definiens have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly develop a digital pathology system to support clinical diagnosis of several types of cancer, beginning with breast cancer. The companies will integrate Definiens’ image...
Philips has initiated a German public-private partnership that aims to advance the development of whole-body Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) systems and preclinical hybrid systems that combine MPI with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The German...
Samsung has bought a majority stake in South Korean ultrasound manufacturer Medison Co., as it aims to compete with global rivals General Electric and Philips in the healthcare market.
The purchase of 43.5 percent stake in fellow Korean...
SuperSonic Imagine, an innovative ultrasound medical imaging company, has announced the completion of a €34.5 million Series C financing, to develop additional clinical applications and commercial expansion at global level.The Series C...
Carestream Health launched a new eHealth portal service at RSNA last week, which will be available in Europe and the United States in early 2011. The new service, which is part of Carestream’s portfolio of cloud-based eHealth Managed Services...
Market Research Firm, Data Information Intelligence (DII), has announced the first results of the Hospital Radiology Census 2010 for Europe, which was carried out in major European markets. According to the Germany-based analyst, investments into X-...
PACSGEAR has announced a new release of its powerful Quality Control tool for PACS/EHR, GEARView™ QC 2.0. The enhanced GEARView QC 2.0 now includes a comprehensive media import feature that lets hospitals and healthcare facilities securely...
Royal Philips Electronics and Electron, a leading Russian medical equipment manufacturer, have completed Russia's first installation and clinical validation of a domestically made Computed Tomography (CT) scanner, at the Hospital of War Veterans...
Carestream Health has sold its 1,000th medical imaging system using its CARESTREAM DRX-1, the industry’s first wireless, cassette-sized detector that can help streamline overall imaging workflow, while simultaneously improving productivity and...
Canon Europe, world-leader in imaging solutions, has announced a range of new medical imaging technologies at Canon EXPO Paris 2010, aimed at improving the workflow and efficiency of medical diagnosis whilst also maximising patient comfort...
Adama Grucy Hospital in Otwock, Poland, is now running the latest version 11 of CARESTREAM PACS, featuring 3D reconstruction and ORTHOVIEW™ Orthopaedic Digital Imaging that enables surgeons to spend time scrutinising results to ensure that the...
Elekta achieved first place rankings in two recent challenges for new prototype software. The top finishes were for lung, as well as head & neck at the 13th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computing Assisted Intervention (MICCAI...
Medlab, in Ankara, Turkey, has chosen to digitise its mammography operations using a MicroDose mammography solution from the IT and medical technology company, Sectra. The system was sold by Kurt&Kurt AS, Sectra’s distribution partner in...
Hologic, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics products, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, announced that the Radiological Devices Panel (Panel...
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a promising new technology that acquires 3-dimensional images of the breast. The individual images are presented as thin high-resolution slices that can be displayed individually or in a dynamic cine mode....
Advantech, an embedded platform and integration services provider, has announced three new digital signage players into its expanding product offering. ARK-DS303 is a cost-effective platform powered by the Intel® Atom™ processor...
Since its official launch earlier this year, Siemens Healthcare’s innovative software application for multi-modality clinical image reporting has received 10 orders in the UK. syngo®.via is a client-server...
Since its official launch earlier this year, Siemens Healthcare’s innovative software application for multi-modality clinical image reporting has received 10 orders in the UK. syngo®.via is a client-server...
ContextVision, an image enhancement partner to global medical imaging manufacturers, today announced the appointment of Anita Tollstadius as CEO, effective immediately. A member of the company board of directors since 2008, Anita has been closely...
Salisbury District Hospital, which is managed by Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, has enhanced its radiography service with the upgrade to a Luminos dRF™ two-in-one fluoroscopy and radiography digital imaging system from Siemens Healthcare...
Nij Smellinghe Hospital in Drachten, The Netherlands, has chosen to extend its relationship with Carestream Health by signing a new multi-year contract for RIS/PACS eHealth Managed Services. The new contact will deliver an enterprise-wide solution...
Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) has agreed to acquire the business of CDP Medical Ltd, an Israel-based provider of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), and a subsidiary of medical device distributor Medtechnica Ltd (...
The Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra has been awarded a contract to install four MicroDose Mammography units for use in Victoria. The Sectra MicroDose units offer improved or identical image quality at a lower radiation dose than...
Epson America today announced an agreement with Royal Philips Electronics that will help pair Epson ink jet printers and WorkForce all-in-ones, designed specifically for business environments, with Philips ultrasound medical imaging systems in...
The Ministry of Health of the Spanish region of Murcia has placed an order worth 132 million Euros to Siemens Healthcare for medical technology, service and financing. Within the framework of a public private partnership, Siemens will provide two...
Sectra has been awarded a contract to install a dedicated breast imaging PACS and three MicroDose mammography units for use in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
The new integrated mammography solution will provide radiologists with the...
Frost & Sullivan has presented Carestream Health with the 2010 European Digital Radiography New Product Innovation Award. Specifically, the award recognises development of the CARESTREAM DRX-1 System, a wireless cassette sized detector that is...
Philips Electronics has announced the world’s first Mobile 3.0T MRI system with MultiTransmit - the Achieva 3.0T TX Mobile MRI. The mobile system brings advanced MRI diagnostic capabilities to patients who previously may not have had access...
