Imaging Dynamics Co. has announced it was awarded a sole-source contract to provide DR equipment and services to Broadlane's Group Buy participants.

PACSGEAR announced this week the company's second European installation at the Departmental Hospital Winterthur in Switzerland, which has selected the company's PacsSCAN FILM software for digitizing films.

Varian Medical Systems this week announced that it has begun the 80th installation of the image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) product On-Board Imager.

Eastman Kodak Company and Viatronix, Inc. announced the first installation of Viatronix's virtual colonoscopy software with Kodak's PACS platform at Borg Imaging Group, one of the largest chains of diagnostic imaging centers in the Rochester, N.Y. area.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions has announced two new contracts to install its electronic health record (EHR) systems, one with Tennessee Oncology and another through Cincinnati Eye Institute.

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) this week announced it has successfully upgraded to the IDX Carecast enterprise clinical system from IDX Systems Corporation at four of its facilities, marking the first activation of Carecast in Canada.

I'm not much of a hypochondriac. But sometimes when a coworker complains of a sore throat and I listen to the coughing and nose-blowing going on in the next office, I think hard about whether my throat is feeling scratchy too. Maybe a little vitamin C wouldn't be a bad idea to ward off whatever germs are around.

The radiology world is changing at near breakneck speed. New imaging technologies such as 64-slice CT and 3T MRI are taking the market by storm, driving new applications and improving imaging techniques. At the same time, modalities are combining to provi