Agfa HealthCare will be installing its medical imaging repository, the Impax Data Center 2.0, at Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Repository Services in Toronto.

Image management and reporting software provider Digisonics has released a new version of its OB-View/OB-Windows image management and reporting system, with updated features for both image display and structured reporting.

In the matter of a few short years, virtualization has leapt from bleeding edge to leading edge. Even the most traditionally risk-adverse healthcare providers are maximizing virtualization. The reasons behind the uptick are fairly straightforward. Virtualization, and the resulting storage consolidation, delivers a host of benefits including reduced costs, streamlined IT resource management and accelerated application deployment.

The setting for the 2010 annual meeting of the AHRA: association for medical imaging management Washington, D.C.couldn't be more appropriate. As always, the meeting will focus on executive-level radiology management strategies, but this year, Beltway initiatives, including healthcare reform and new regulations, will take center stage.

Diamyd Medical, a Stockholm-based diabetes developer of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of autoimmune diabetes and its complications, has received antitrust clearance that closes the transaction announced on June 22 with Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Johnson & Johnson company.

Agfa HealthCare has released its DX-D 500 and DX-D 300 direct radiography (DR) systems in the U.S.

Clinical and financial IT provider Picis has been selected by St. Joseph Health System in Orange, Calif., for its perioperative and anesthesia information management technology to be implemented across the system's 13 facilities and estimated 81 operating rooms.

Providence Equity Partners of Providence, R.I. has completed its acquisition of Virtual Radiologic, a developer of radiologist workflow technologies.