February 9, 2012 | Mike Miliard
McKesson announced Wednesday that it has acquired Sarasota, Fla.-based peerVue, which develops radiology workflow and communication solutions. The move helps broaden McKesson's portfolio of enterprise imaging and information management systems.

January 26, 2012 | Mike Miliard
M*Modal has partnered with Chicago-based Merge Healthcare to integrate its speech recognition and natural language understanding (NLU) technology across Merge's portfolio of imaging and IT offerings.

December 28, 2011 | Bernie Monegain
UPMC Bedford Memorial and UPMC Passavant hospitals join eight other UPMC facilities as being among the most advanced in the world for their use of comprehensive electronic medical records (EMRs), having achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 criteria for EHR use.

December 15, 2011 | Rene Letourneau
Fujifilm will seek to make inroads into the hand-held ultrasound market with its $995 million acquisition of Bothell, Wash.-based SonoSite.

December 2, 2011 | Bernie Monegain
Though PACS replacements have slowed overall, a new KLAS report, "PACS 2011: A Victim of Its Own Success," indicates that a new wave of replacements is near. Nearly one in six hospitals and health systems with more than 1,000 beds reported they have plans to replace their PACS.

November 9, 2011 | White Papers
Healthcare organizations are seeking to deliver a robust EMR that’s accessible from multiple points of care. It’s what your patient and medical communities are loudly demanding - with the goal of gaining increased access to patient medical records, and enhanced capabilities with the records themselves. One vital component of an EMR is often overlooked: feature-rich, easy access to integrated, patient-centric, archived medical imaging records. Learn how you can design a cost-effective plan to reduce the complexity, time, cost, and risk in planning and deploying a comprehensive clinical imaging strategy.

August 22, 2011 | White Papers
Adopting an enterprise imaging strategy with “any image, anywhere, anytime” accessibility is not a technology issue. Hospitals that have embraced this strategy can react much faster when future advances in diagnostic imaging emerge, and have found they have distinct advantages including attracting and retaining physicians, protecting their patients from unnecessary radiation and duplicate tests, and preparing themselves for the inevitable decline in reimbursement rates. Learn the benefits for hospitals, referring physicians and patients.

July 1, 2011 | White Papers
Medical applications are among the most demanding users of network capacity, real-time performance, mission-critical reliability, and data security. Hospitals and medical centers are accelerating the pace of accessing and storing patient records via EMRs. In addition, the use of tablet computers to simplify record updates is growing. In March of 2011, a 45% increase was reported in health care professionals’ access to information by smartphone or iPad. Considering that data centers storing these records are often not connected to the main hospital, or medical office building, all this adds up to an explosion of information straining existing network infrastructure. Due to these pressures, hospitals and clinics are increasingly looking to IT departments to improve productivity and control costs. Learn more about the many advantages of using high-capacity wireless links to replace fiber or aging copper-based leased lines.

November 9, 2010 | On Demand Webinars
Improve clinician productivity and give IT staff more time back in their day, all while cutting costs and elevating patient safety and quality of care.

August 17, 2009 | Neil Versel
Merge Healthcare, a company that seems to be back on its feet after an accounting scandal, a trip through bankruptcy and a change of management, is opening up some of its proprietary code for outside development.

June 15, 2011 | Industry News Release
KLAS today announced the release of their highly anticipated 2011 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Medical Equipment & Infrastructure report. The coveted awards are based solely on data from customer surveys of hospital and clinic executives, administrators, physicians, nurses, clinicians, and other directors and managers interacting with healthcare equipment and infrastructure solutions.

April 21, 2011 | Healthcare IT News Staff
Radiology & Imaging in Springfield, Mass., the largest radiology practice in Western Massachusetts, and Seacoast Radiology in Rochester, N.H., have joined other radiology practices in the Northeast using McKesson's Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) to optimize financial performance. With the industry’s most robust radiology billing and compliance solutions and extensive business intelligence capabilities, McKesson’s technology and services are designed to help the groups grow revenue, control costs and mitigate regulatory risks.

October 25, 2010 | Industry News Release
Avreo is delighted to announce a partnership with Mammography Reporting System (MRS), the most widely used mammography tracking system in the world.

September 20, 2010 | HealthTech Wire
Agfa HealthCare, a provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announced that it has signed an agreement with TomTec, active in the sector of echocardiography image analysis, reporting and data management, for the integration of its Image-Arena solution into the company's IMPAX Cardiovascular Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).

August 20, 2010 | Industry News Release
Symantec Corp. today announced the successful compatibility testing between Symantec Health, a cloud-based medical image archiving solution, and Siemens Healthcare's picture archiving and communication system (PACS) solutions.