New buyers of PAC systems represent only a small minority of customers, according to IMV Medical Information Division. The need to upgrade or replace systems is the primary driver in the PACS marketplace, with the lion’s share of purchases going for current-system upgrades. More »
For the past 15 years, most PACS have performed the basic tasks of taking in images, archiving them, sending them to workstations for display, and hopefully not losing them. More »
Efforts to interconnect information systems raise the possibility that different experiences from multiple sites might be pooled and the practice of medicine made better through a kind of collective wisdom. At the ISCT symposium, Sandy Napel, Ph.D., a Stanford professor of radiology and codirector... More »
PACS vendors in the technical exhibition at ECR 2010 are demonstrating some of the hottest gadgets that will be filling the toolbox of tomorrow’s distributed radiology services. More »
Thinking Systems is showcasing its upgraded ThinkingPACS and ThinkingRIS at RSNA 2009, focusing on enhancements that support multimodality processing, especially for molecular imaging. More »
Carestream Health showed at the RSNA meeting a work-in-progress upgrade to its PACS that will allow cross-site reading through a unified global work list. More »
Thinking Systems will showcase its upgraded ThinkingPACS and ThinkingRIS at RSNA 2009, focusing on enhancements that support multi-modality processing, especially for molecular imaging. More »
An iPhone viewing system and instant voice report creation function will be among the enhancements CoActiv will debut for its EXAM-PACS at RSNA 2009. More »
