Product News: Page 487

Information systems firm Guardian Technologies has agreed to purchase radiology information systems provider Wise Systems of Corsham, U.K.

Longtime Philips Medical Systems executive Jack Price has been named CEO of magnetoencephalography (MEG) developer VSM MedTech of Vancouver, BC.

Orex Computed Radiography of Auburndale, MA, and Siemens Medical Solutions China have signed an exclusive distribution agreement in which Siemens will distribute Orex CR systems in China.

Siemens Medical Solutions of Malvern, PA, has expanded its Axiom Artis digital angiography line with three new flat-panel digital systems being introduced at this week's RSNA show.

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.

PET development firm CTI Molecular Imaging has introduced its Reveal Hi REZ, a detector that improves the 3-D resolution of its system, according to the Knoxville, TN-based company.

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.

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.

MRI Devices will be debuting a breast MRI computer-aided detection system at next week’s 2003 RSNA meeting in Chicago. DynaCAD consists of five modules, according to the Waukesha, WI-based vendor.