HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG) has awarded a contract to GE Healthcare to make its advanced imaging technologies available to the thousands of patients HPG serves.

InSiteOne Inc. will be implementing its on- and off-site secure DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine) storage at Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, Del., which serves the entire state and surrounding areas.

We're always trying to gauge the adoption of IT in healthcare, and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently put forth some numbers that prove what we already knew - adoption is still limited, although growing.

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) has received 50 new sales orders for its line of Xplorer DR (digital radiography) products since November's Radiological Society of North America show.

Misys Healthcare System has been awarded a contract by the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas (VNA) in Dallas to deploy its Misys Homecare that will help the organization transition to a paperless environment.

Physicians at Sentara Healthcare of Norfolk, Va., are using hand-held wireless devices from Eclipsys Corp. to securely access critical clinical data at a patient's bedside, on clinical rounds or outside the hospital.

Winthrop-University Hospital of Long Island, N.Y., has awarded Siemens Medical Solutions a contract to install an array of medical imaging technologies and clinical information technology (IT) systems.

Kodak's Health Group has signed contracts with more than 70 European and U.S. healthcare institutions for its RIS/PACS suite and enterprise information management systems including the new Kodak DirectView PACS System 5.