Medical Imaging News

Premier Inc. Announces Imaging Group Buy With Philips Medical, Mallinckrodt, and Medrad (RedNova)
The Premier alliance of nearly 1,500 hospitals and health systems has announced a special group buy for Philips Medical Systems, as well as associated contrast media injectors from Mallinckrodt and Medrad.
Beijing Policy Shift May Boost Local Medical-Device Companies – Wall Street Journal (subscription)

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dBusinessNews.com – He is a member of the Board of Management of Royal Philips Electronics, which owns approximately 70.9% of the Company’s common stock, and is the Chief Executive Officer of Philips Medical Systems. Both Mr. Hommen and Mr. Karvinen are deemed to be …
Baxa Corporation s Claude Hooton Featured in Leadership Strategy Book, Inside the Minds: The Health Care Management Team (PR Web)
Claude Hooton, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Baxa Corporation, was recognized for his leadership through his contribution to the recently released book, “Inside the Minds: The Health Care Management Team.” Hooton s contribution joins those of CEOs, CTOs and other leaders to provide insight into the best leadership practice in the health care industry. (PRWEB Aug 11, 2006)
Premier Inc. Announces Imaging Group Buy With Philips Medical … – dBusinessNews Charlotte (press release)

Caught offside
Zawya.com – Philips Medical Systems is even throwing in HeartStart Defibrillators at some matches. FIFA, therefore, is doing all it can to protect Philips and the other official sponsors from being upstaged by other non-affiliated brands keen to cash in on event

Philips Q2 sales and opg beat forecasts, net misses; sees slower
Forbes – Philips Medical Systems saw sales grow by 9 pct compared to the second quarter of last year. Sales were 1.630 bln eur versus 1.498 bln. For the full year, Philips expects a ‘high-single-digit’, while operating margins are expected to ‘show an

Toshiba America gets a new operations VP
Orange County Register – Previously, he worked with Philips Medical Systems and Marconi Medical Systems. Cohen promotes director Mark Strauss was promoted to managing director of the capital markets unit of Newport Beach-based commercial real estate firm Cohen Financial

Philips Presents Speechmagic 6.1 – Healthcare Speech Recognition Turns
Onlypunjab.com – Crescendo, Dolbey, Epic, Healthcare Technologies, MedQuist and other Philips partners use reporting solutions powered by SpeechMagic. Leading international healthcare companies such as AGFA Healthcare, GE Healthcare, Kodak Health, Philips Medical

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dBusinessNews.com – He is a member of the Board of Management of Royal Philips Electronics, which owns approximately 70.9% of the Company’s common stock, and is the Chief Executive Officer of Philips Medical Systems. Both Mr. Hommen and Mr. Karvinen are deemed to be

Cutting Edge Hospital Equipment
KTRE – The hospital’s new Brilliance CT scanner from Philips Medical Systems features advanced technology that produces split-second high quality images, permitting doctors to see more anatomical detail in a fraction of the time needed for other tests. With

Defibrillator problems examined (Seattle Times)
A review of safety data raises questions about the reliability of the defibrillators that hang on the walls of airports, shopping malls…
Philips wins 100m medical equipment deal at Royal Hospitals … – MTBeurope

Infoway negotiates preferred solution agreements for DI
Canadian Healthcare Technology – Agfa Inc., Christie Group Ltd., McKesson Information Solutions Canada Company, and Philips Electronics Ltd., operating under the trade name of Philips Medical Systems Canada. On a national scale, this approach could help reduce …
Premier Inc. Announces Imaging Group Buy With Philips Medical, Mallinckrodt, and Medrad (RedNova)
The Premier alliance of nearly 1,500 hospitals and health systems has announced a special group buy for Philips Medical Systems, as well as associated contrast media injectors from Mallinckrodt and Medrad.
Premier Inc. Announces Imaging Group Buy With Philips Medical … – Business Wire (press release)

Infoway negotiates preferred solution agreements for DI
Canadian Healthcare Technology – Agfa Inc., Christie Group Ltd., McKesson Information Solutions Canada Company, and Philips Electronics Ltd., operating under the trade name of Philips Medical Systems Canada. On a national scale, this approach could help reduce …

Emageon’s Image Problems (The Motley Fool via Yahoo! News)
Shares of Emageon (Nasdaq: EMAG – News), which develops technologies to cost-effectively manage medical images, rose sharply at the start of the year, reaching $19 apiece. Since then, the stock has steadily slid back to $14.58. Nonetheless, despite megacompetitors and demanding customers, the company continues to grow its business.
Putting the cuffs on bleeding – Engineer Online

Emageon’s Image Problems
Motley Fool – SI) , Philips Medical Systems , McKesson (NYSE: MCK) , and Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) . Emageon’s relative youth has helped it deal with the fierce competition, letting the company build a comprehensive offering of next-generation technologies. It’s also …
Defibrillator problems examined (Seattle Times)
A review of safety data raises questions about the reliability of the defibrillators that hang on the walls of airports, shopping malls…
Putting the cuffs on bleeding – Engineer Online

Philips Presents Speechmagic 6.1 – Healthcare Speech Recognition Turns
Onlypunjab.com – Crescendo, Dolbey, Epic, Healthcare Technologies, MedQuist and other Philips partners use reporting solutions powered by SpeechMagic. Leading international healthcare companies such as AGFA Healthcare, GE Healthcare, Kodak Health, Philips Medical

Hospitals’ patch fears on the wane
Network World Fusion – Imaging, radiological and cancer-care equipment made by GE Healthcare, Siemens, Agfa, Kodak’s Health Imaging Group, Philips Medical Systems and others is often networked and includes commercial off-the-shelf software

Siemens Recognized as Number One in U.S. Radiology Market and with Top
WebWire – The KBC 2005 report ranks Siemens as number one in radiology market share in total revenues including options, with a market share of 34 percent, followed by Philips Medical Systems and General Electric Healthcare, respectively. According to the KBC

Laughlin Hospital Opens New Outpatient Imaging Center
Greeneville Sun – The new suite, designed by Philips Medical Systems, is one of only three nationwide that feature Philips Ambient Experience technology. On the ceiling is a special video screen, constructed in France and shipped to Laughlin, that provides

First-generation heart scans may be inaccurate
NWCN – first-generation CT scan may still be useful for people at low risk of heart disease, because it can rule out blocked arteries, but people at high risk are probably better off having the catheter angiogram. Philips Medical

Nanotechnology enables low-dose treatment of atherosclerotic plaques
EurekAlert – Funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association and Philips Medical Systems supported this research. Washington University School of Medicine’s full-time and volunteer faculty physicians also are the medical staff of

Toshiba America gets a new operations VP
Orange County Register – Previously, he worked with Philips Medical Systems and Marconi Medical Systems. Cohen promotes director Mark Strauss was promoted to managing director of the capital markets unit of Newport Beach-based commercial real estate firm Cohen Financial

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dBusinessNews.com – National Builder Organization Recognizes Carpenter, Cammack & Associates Charlotte, N.C. Tom Carpenter, chief operating officer of Carpenter, Cammack Premier Inc. Announces Imaging Group Buy With Philips Medical, Mallinckrodt, and Medrad

Cisco, Philips, Emergin Partner On Patient Monitoring App
TechWeb – Cisco Systems Inc., Philips Medical Systems, and Emergin Inc. have partnered to rollout Cisco Clinical Connection Suite Patient Monitoring application, the companies said in a joint statement. The Cisco Clinical Connection Suite Patient Monitoring

Philips Medical inks research agreement with Dartmouth
Boston Business Journal – Philips Medical Systems , a division of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG), and the medical and engineering schools of Dartmouth College have entered into a research agreement to develop imaging capabilities that aim to better enable earlier

Ramco Systems
ManagingAutomation.com – owing to reduced total cost of ownership, sustained fit, enhanced agility and reduced risk. Ramco has over 1000 client locations worldwide including Cisco, Preferred Meal Systems, Petroleum Helicopters, Ericsson, Hyundai, MJB Wood, Philips Medical