CJPS Healthcare Supplies and Equipment, a subsidiary of CJPS Enterprises, has purchased Delphis VitalPoint business, a remote patient monitoring product, for an undisclosed sum.

Siemens Healthcare has appointed John Glaser, PhD, as CEO of the health services business unit.

The PACS market has reached maturity with the lion's share of the market shifting from first-time PACS projects to upgrades,  according to a report issued last week by marketing research and consulting firm IMV Medical Information Division. For many facilities, investment plans through 2012 are focused on expansions in image storage capacity and network/bandwidth infrastructure, deployment of additional workstations and flat screen monitors and investments in wireless networking and advanced visualization software.

Imaging Healthcare Specialists, based in San Diego, will implement two Oasis high field open MRI systems from Hitachi Medical Systems America.

Imaging with stress cardiac MRI in an observation unit can reduce incident cost without missing acute coronary syndrome in patients with emergent chest pain when compared to inpatient care, according to a study published online May 31 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

No matter what health IT angle you choose to view, this weeks headlines point out how much work still needs to be done to improve healthcare. For example, a report earlier this week found that U.S. healthcare still lags behind seven other nations even though we spend almost twice as much per capita on care as the other nations in this study.

Imaging contract research organization ACR Image Metrix teamed up with Nashua, N.H.- based computer-aided detection company iCAD at the 2010 annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago to showcase the companys new iCAD image analysis software program.

Deployment of wi-fi in healthcare environments has grown by more than 60 percent worldwide during the past 12 months, according to ABI Research. High double-digit growth is expected to continue for both wireless local area network (WLAN) and Wi-Fi RTLS (Real-Time Locations Systems) deployments, the London-based market research firm said.