May 20, 2010 - In the future, the majority of health portals, electronic patient health information archives and (ePHI) or electronic medical records (EMR) may support all formats of medical imaging. This will all take place in a vendor-neutral cloud repository.

May 20, 2010 - The International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT held May 19 in San Francisco, Calif., hosted the “Workstation Face-Off,” which challenged providers of advanced 3-D image processing technologies to process and interpret three complex computed tomography (CT) imaging studies.

May 20, 2010 - Seven advanced visualization systems companies competed at the annual “Workstation Challenge” held at the 2010 International Symposium on Multidetector Row CT (ISCT) held in San Francisco, Calif.

May 20, 2010 - With radiologists under continual reimbursement pressure, momentum is building in the radiology the radiology billing and practice management solution (RMS) market.

May 20, 2010 - Virtual Radiologic Corp. (vRad) announced on May 17 the private equity firm, Providence Equity Partners, will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of vRad for $17.25 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $294 million.

May 20, 2010 - A new radiology information management system (RIS) is designed to support radiation dose tracking and user alerts.

May 20, 2010 - Radiation oncologists are increasingly younger practitioners, and there is a larger number of women entering the specialty, according to a report released by The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO).

May 20, 2010 – St. Jude Medical Inc. announced yesterday it is purchasing LightLab Imaging Inc. for $90 million. Lightlab makes optical coherence tomography (OCT) intravascular imaging systems. Earlier this month its OCT system became the first cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

May 20, 2010 – A new partnership enables data communication between Medrad's Intego positron emission tomography (PET) infusion system and Pinestar Technology's Nuclear Medicine Information System (NMIS). The companies are closing the information gap between infusion systems and the information systems, adding to the workflow benefits of automated fludeoxyglucose (FDG) infusion.

May 19, 2010 – Three distinct lumens in a new line of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) increase flexibility to administer medications simultaneously. It also allows contrast power injections for computed tomography (CT) imaging using a single PICC line.

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