Enterprise Imaging

Enterprise imaging brings together all imaging exams, patient data and reports from across a healthcare system into one location to aid efficiency and economy of scale for data storage. This enables immediate access to images and reports any clinical user of the electronic medical record (EMR) across a healthcare system, regardless of location. Enterprise imaging (EI) systems replace the former system of using a variety of disparate, siloed picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), and a variety of separate, dedicated workstations and logins to view or post-process different imaging modalities. Often these siloed systems cannot interoperate and cannot easily be connected. Web-based EI systems are becoming the standard across most healthcare systems to incorporate not only radiology, but also cardiology (CVIS), pathology and dozens of other departments to centralize all patient data into one cloud-based data storage and data management system.

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Acuo bolsters sales team

Acuo Technologies added two sales executives to its team.

Medtronic to acquire Osteotech for approx. $123M

Medical technology companies Medtronic and Osteotech have entered into a definitive agreement for Medtronic to acquire Osteotech for $6.50 per share in cash for each share of Osteotech common stock. The total value of the transaction is expected to be approximately $123 million.

Medco to acquire United BioSource for $730M

Medco Health Solutions has signed a definitive agreement to acquire United BioSource in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $730 million.

NextComputing introduces portable rad workstation

Computing services provider NextComputing has released a portable radiology workstation, the NextDemension TravelRad.

Flailing Arizona Heart gives green light to Vanguard acquisition

The Arizona Heart Institute has endorsed the pending agreement with Vanguard Health Systems in Nashville, Tenn., to purchase both the Arizona Heart Hospital and Arizona Heart Institute. Prior to this proposed takeover, the institute had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

iMedX buys Louisiana transcription company

iMedX, a healthcare software and services company, has acquired the assets of MedTech Transcriptions, a Metairie, La.-based medical transcription company serving medical clinics in Louisiana for more than 15 years, for an undisclosed sum.

IBM acquires data management services company

IBM has acquired content management company Datacap to strengthen its ability to help organizations digitize, manage and automate its information assets, particularly in paper-intensive industries such as healthcare, insurance, government and finance. Financial terms were not disclosed.

ATS Medical shareholders OK Medtronic takeover

ATS Medical's shareholders have approved the acquisition by Minneapolis-based Medtronic for $370 million.

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