The market value of mammography systems in the Americas will increase from approximately $390 million in 2013 to $1.1 billion by 2020, according to business intelligence provider GBI Research, driven primarily by the uptake of 3-D systems in the United States and healthy demand for 2-D systems in Canada, Mexico and Brazil.

IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) and Université Catholique de Louvain announced that the first patient treatment with IBA's Proton Therapy Specific Cone Beam CT (CBCT) was successfully completed at Penn Medicine's Roberts Proton Therapy Center.

Manufacturers have introduced hybrid imaging systems that combine positron emission tomography (PET) with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The purported benefit is improved detail in organ and soft-tissue images without the ionizing radiation inherent with systems that combine PET with computed tomography (CT), the gold-standard hybrid imaging modality.

Medweb highlighted the browser neutral viewer for enterprise applications at RSNA 2014.  

Collaborative Web Radiology Viewer

Merge Healthcare Incorporated announced a partnership with NextGen Healthcare to address significant challenges facing healthcare organizations, such as provider relations and inefficiencies in the medical image ordering process.
 

Intelerad Medical Systems announced they have signed a teaming agreement to leverage Forcare’s IHE Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) functionality to further enhance their cross-enterprise data sharing abilities.
 

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