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Healthcare informatics developer Mantis Technology of New York City and CoActiv Medical Business Solutions of Ridgefield, CT, are debuting their respective RIS and PACS products as a fully integrated RIS/PACS solution at this week’s RSNA conference in Chicago, the firms said.

RIS/PACS provider RadInfo Systems has installed its CD PowerPACS CD-based DICOM image distribution system across the entire Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 (VISN 16) hospital system.

McKesson Information Solutions has hired Greg Arnsdorff as vice president and deputy general manager for its Medical Imaging Group.

Information systems provider VitalWorks has completed its acquisition of Amicas.

Cedara Software has signed an agreement with Beijing Invention & Technology (BITC), which will market the Mississauga, Ontario-based vendor’s I-Suite PACS family in China.

Eastman Kodak Health Imaging has closed its acquisition of PACS vendor Algotec Systems of Raanana, Israel. The Rochester, NY-based firm paid $42.5 million in cash for its PACS partner.

Canadian PACS firm Intelerad Medical Systems has added Advanced Radiology Consultants (ARC) in Trumbull, CT, to its client list.

Women’s imaging provider Hologic has signed a distribution agreement with archiving services firm InSiteOne of Wallingford, CT.

Image management firm Stentor of South San Francisco, CA, has signed a deal with Providence Health System Oregon to implement its iSite PACS software at seven Providence hospitals in the state.

Medical imaging graphics card developer Matrox Graphics and MeVis Diagnostics, a subsidiary of MeVis Technology in Bremen, Germany, have partnered to deliver an OpenGL-based implementation of MeVis' MD-Jade diagnostic software application to the medical imaging market, according to Montreal-based Matrox.