On the exhibit floor, more vendors discussed new partnerships than new technology, turning the exhibits into a kind of Game of Thrones (without the prurient interest), with alliances forming daily.

Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. has partnered with United Medical Instruments (UMI), a worldwide provider of new and pre-owned ultrasound systems, parts and transducers, to sell Toshiba's ultrasound systems to the private physician office and clinic market in the United States.

 ORLANDO, Fla.Perspective is critical in the radiation exposure discussion. Aaron D. Sodickson, MD, PhD, of Brigham & Womens Hospital in Boston, shared the bucket analogy during a June 9 session at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). [Cancer] risk from radiation exposure is a drop in the bucket. But we need to know how full the bucket is, how quickly we are adding to it and the size of drops.

GE Healthcare unveiled its updated Centricity PACS 4.0 at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, June 7-10, in Orlando, Fla.

Despite a national mandate prohibiting gender-based pregnancy terminations, ultrasound clinics in Dehli, India have found themselves squarely in the middle of an antique cultural practice that poses a very real threat to national population statistics.

Three hospitals using two separate PACS are a recipe for headaches, and Steven C. Horii, MD, is determined to find relief. As clinical director in the Medical Informatics Group at Philadelphia’s University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Horii wants his enterprise imaging platform to boost crucial connectivity, while maintaining most of the

The modern picture archiving and communication system (PACS) has done an amazing job of organizing a massive amount of digital information. However, PACS manufacturers focused so much energy on archiving and communicating that the mechanics of moving that data often fell by the wayside.

Brian M. Barbeito, MBA, MSHA, heads a radiology group that deals primarily with hospitals, but his Memphis-based company, Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics, also covers numerous outside-read businesses, which offer outpatient imaging services. Getting the right images to the right radiologists has not been easy, but technology has helped. Rob Sumter