Carestream acquires Quantum
Carestream Health has acquired Quantum Medical Imaging limited, a privately-held manufacturer of conventional and digital x-ray systems. Carestream says the move makes it a ‘global leader’ in x-ray imaging, and that it will now work to expand both its medical imaging and healthcare IT solutions. Quantum says the move will accelerate its growth, and that its dealers […]
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Derby City leads on breast imaging
Only one of England’s 82 local breast screening programmes is fully integrated with its local PACS – but other sites are making progress, UKRC 2010 heard this week.
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Image conscious
Despite the new age of austerity, the PACS/RIS community is looking to future investment, Linda Davidson finds on the eve of UKRC.
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Agfa inks Brazilian digital imaging deal
Agfa HealthCare, has signed an agreement with Brazil’s Fundação Instituto de Pesquisa e Estudo de Diagnóstico por Imagen for the delivery and installation of its digital imaging and healthcare IT solutions across the facility’s 25 sites. The agreement was signed in Brazil the presence of His Royal Highness, Prince Filip of Belgium. Financial details of […]
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Philips and Definiens join forces
Philips and Definiens, a Germany-based image analysis company, have signed a memorandum of understanding that will see them develop and market clinical decision support systems for digital pathology. Philips, which is best known for its medical imaging systems, has called on Definiens to provide and develop more accurate and robust image analysis applications. Bob van […]
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Carestream Health announces Dutch deal
Coverage from ECR 2010 Carestream Health has announced a long term digital imaging services agreement with Stichting Samenwerkende Ziekenhuizen Oost Groningen in the Netherlands. In a statement coinciding with the European Congress of Radiology meeting in Vienna, the company said it would provide its new eHealth PACS Services to the group’s three hospitals. eHealth PACS […]
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College highlights poor PACS image sharing
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor, according to a new position paper from the Royal College of Radiologists.
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EHI’s industry round-up 19.02.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers system deployments, new products, and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Wirral goes wireless with Aruba Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a secure wireless network from Aruba Networks at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge Hospitals. Peter Marsh, technical director of the Wirral Health Informatics […]
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Agfa-Gavaert receives €18.5 Canadian grant
Belgian imaging technology group Agfa-Gevaert says it has received a grant of €18.5 ($29.6m Canadian) from the Ontario government to aid the company’s Canadian R&D operations in Toronto and Waterloo (Canada). The grant will support a total of nearly €125m ($200m Canadian) investment by Agfa HealthCare in its Ontario operations, creating 100 new positions and […]
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Versailles Hospital deploys wireless LAN
Mignot Hospital, France, an 800-bed hospital that is part of Versailles hospital system, has announced the deployment of a wireless local area network.
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