The worldwide market for Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) is expected to grow by 10% annually to about $5.8 billion by 2017, according to MarketResearch.com.

The health care merger and acquisition market in the US generated 980 deals worth $227.4 billion in 2010, which was 9% higher than the previous year, based on a market report by Irving Levin Associates, Inc.

Cyber security experts are warning small practices of the vulnerabilities in their electronic record systems in a report by Kroll’s Cyber Security and Information Assurance.

The Food and Drug Administration has cleared an upgrade to a digital mammography system produced by Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA.

Federal health reform could create greater demand for medical office space focused on ambulatory care, including medical imaging.

Medical imaging still cannot fully take the place of an actual autopsy, according to an editorial set to appear in the Jan. 17 on-line edition of the Annals of Internal Medecine.

Nashville General Hospital joins a growing number of hospitals nationwide choosing to upgrade their information systems with integrated RIS/PACS platforms.

Medical students at the military’s largest medical residency program in the country were instructed to cheat on the certification tests with the American Board of Radiology for about the past decade, according to an investigative report aired Friday on CNN.