The European DR market earned revenues of $68 million in 2009 and could reach an estimated $111.2 million in 2016, according to analysis from Frost & Sullivan. Experincing similiar increases, the European CR market earned revenues of $228 million in 2009 and could reach an estimated $237.4 million by 2016, the report said. 

Cardinal Health has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Healthcare Solutions Holding in a $517 million cash deal.

The Sorin Group has acquired Gish Biomedical from Ventizz Capital Partners, a private equity group.

MINNEAPOLIS--Carestream Health released Carestream PACS 11.1 at the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting last week. The newest version of its PACS has abdominal and cardiac vessel segmentation capabilities and a new user interface.

MINNEAPOLISAt the 2010 Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine conference this week, Siemens Healthcare demonstrated syngo.via and syngo.plaza, its advanced visualization and PACS technologies. These systems represent new benchmarks in delivering case preparation, image reading and archiving functionality to the clinical routine, according to the company.

MINNEAPOLISUser-unfriendly PACS navigation is one of radiologists top complaints, said David Weiss, MD, physician coordinator of imaging informatics at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Va., during a presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) last week.

Sectras PACS will be installed into six hospitals in Region Skne, Sweden, completing the transition to the shared solution already in operation at Malm University Hospital and Lund University Hospital.

Diagnostic imaging technologies provider Intelerad Medical Systems will install its IntelePACS breast imaging digital mammography at Naples Diagnostic Imaging Centers, part of the NCH Healthcare system based in Naples, Fla.