December 14, 2010 – The 2010 KLAS PACS report has named Infinitt PACS as the top system for a community PACS. It received the highest score when compared with 15 other PACS systems on technology, service and support and price/performance.

December 14, 2010 – Carestream Health has selected Matrox Xenia Series controller boards to drive a variety of the company’s picture archive and communication system (PACS) and mammography products. The Xenia and Xenia Pro deliver smooth, reliable image quality plus triple high-resolution monitor support from a single PCI Express slot.

December 14, 2010 — A new line of compact computed radiography (CR) scanners, introduced at RSNA 2010, can be easily updated. The FireCR medical scanners can be quickly upgraded to higher speeds with a simple smart card update, giving users flexibility to start with an entry?level scanner and increase productivity as their needs change.

December 13, 2010 — An exclusive partnership agreement has been established between Hologic Inc. and SuperSonic Imagine S.A. Under the terms of the agreement, Hologic will sell, install and service SuperSonic Imagine’s Aixplorer ultrasound technology platform to the breast care community in the United States.

December 13, 2010 — New cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and reports is being used to improve clinical care at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (VCUMC) in Richmond, Va.

December 10, 2010 – The first commercial production of generators using molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) produced with low-enriched uranium (LEU) targets in the United States is underway. The Lantheus TechneLite (Technetium Tc99m) generator received the first commercial scale batch from NTP Radioisotopes, a subsidiary of the Nuclear Energy Corporate of South Africa (NESCA)

December 7, 2010 – Four distributors for a PACS and RIS system have been added in Latin America. Novarad has added Electrónica Medica (Panama), Medizintechnik (Chile), Represander (Colombia) and TAG (Guatemala) to represent its NovaPACS and NovaRIS systems in the region and support its sales team. Both systems are available in Spanish and as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering.

December 6, 2010 – A works in progress data center viewer is available on the iPad. The IMPAX Data Center Viewer, by Agfa, is powered by Xero technology and is designed to enable portable point-of-care to patient images. Clinicians can view reference images, including large multi-slice CT studies, as part of the electronic health record (EHR).