Novarad has installed its NovaPACS at three Idaho facilities: Idaho Urological Institute in Meridian, Intermountain Spine & Orthopaedics in Twin Falls and Walter Knox Memorial Hospital in Emmett.

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Lexmark International has acquired Acuo Technologies, a developer of software and services for clinical content management, data migration and vendor neutral archives, for $45 million.

Memorial Health System has ordered Carestream Vue PACS and Vue Motion viewer. The hospital also purchased Carestream’s Vue Cloud Archive for disaster recovery.

Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County in New York has installed Sectra’s PACS at seven of its Hudson Valley locations.

Sentara Healthcare, a not-for-profit health system with sites in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, has selected Accelarad’s cloud-based medical imaging platform, SeeMyRadiology.com, to share and store images throughout the organization’s Hampton Roads, Va., hospitals and imaging centers.

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in California has selected Siemens’ Image Sharing & Archiving (ISA) system, supported by Dell, to use as its cloud-based, vendor-neutral image archive.

The adoption of EMRs brings a major performance opportunity for radiology, according to Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH, vice chair of informatics at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston and author of a column in the December issue of the Journal of American College of Radiology. However, the process of cobbling EMR data in to radiology workflow is riddled with obstacles.