SmartPACS/INFINITT said this week that it has inked six-year PACS installation contracts valued at $14 million with four U.S. healthcare facilities, marking the company's expansion into the West Coast.

Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is being used to treat cancer at UK-based Clatterbridge Oncology Center located in Liverpool.

Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Imaging Group has received new orders for its integrated radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communications system (PACS).

Medicalis Corp. is incorporating the American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria guidelines into its Percipio clinical decision support knowledgebase.

Siemens Medical Solutions and Gamma Medica Inc. this week announced that they will not renew their worldwide marketing agreement which included exclusive marketing rights for Siemens to market Gamma Medica's pre-clinical SPECT and SPECT/CT imaging product

PACS can open up the world of 24/7 diagnostic imaging services to rural communities that have typically not had fast access to the technology, said William J. Halsted, MD, PACS specialist/outreach coordinator, Kalispell Regional Medical Center (KRMC), Kal

At Southern Ohio Medical Center, the adoption of speech recognition software in the radiology department has yielded significant gains in productivity and decreases in report turnaround time.

While nuclear medicine departments tout their own image management solutions, integrating with conventional hospital PACS poses a challenge.