GE Healthcare and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have formed a collaboration aimed at building a pipeline of Wisconsin-based medical imaging software developers and researchers. As part of the collaboration, GE has pledged more than $3 million toward the GE Healthcare Center for Advanced Computational Imaging at UWM.

Elsevier has acquired ExitCare, an enterprise-wide technology for patient education and discharge instructions, which provides peer-reviewed patient education and discharge instructions for clinicians and patients.

Agfa HealthCare has introduced an electronic monitoring service for Impax PACS worldwide designed to prevent unexpected downtime in the healthcare environment.

Agfa HealthCare has launched the Impax Data Center 3.0, a PACS and storage vendor neutral archive.

St. Vincent Hospital, a member of the Hospital Sisters Health System in Green Bay, Wis., will implement Merge Healthcares cardiology suite to capture, manage and display cardiac images, as well as hemodynamics and ECG data, across its enterprise.

Implementation of an online and CD-based image transfer system helped reduce repeat imaging, costs and radiation dose to patients transferred to a level 1 regional trauma center, according to a study published in the September issue of Journal of American College of Radiology.

RadNet has agreed to provide radiology services to Lake Isabella, Calif.-based Kern Valley Healthcare District.

Sectra and Zimmer have signed a non-exclusive cooperation agreement, which will allow Zimmer to provide its customers in certain European countries with Sectras online 2D pre-operative planning system for orthopaedic surgery.