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GE to Buy Intelerad, Lung Screening Criteria, and Vendor Pre-RSNA News
November 24, 2025
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“Let’s make one thing clear, GE aren’t buying a PACS company, they’re buying an entire Imaging Ecosystem!”
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Healthcare recruiter Jay Gurney of Projectus, on GE HealthCare’s bid for Intelerad.
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AI is no longer being viewed as a diagnostic aid but as essential medical infrastructure. Nowhere is that more apparent than in CT lung cancer screening, with Germany and other European Union countries embedding AI into their screening programs. This evolution will be on display at RSNA 2025, where Coreline Soft will introduce its chest AI platform AVIEW 2.0.
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In what could be the biggest radiology IT acquisition in years, GE HealthCare will acquire medical image management software company Intelerad in a purchase valued at $2.3B. The acquisition will bolster GE’s position in the outpatient image management segment, which is rapidly shifting from on-premises PACS models to cloud-based environments.
Intelerad was founded in Montreal in 1999 as a PACS developer and has grown through acquisitions of its own in recent years.
- U.K. private equity firm Hg took a controlling interest in Intelerad in 2020, and the company soon embarked on a series of acquisitions that rolled up smaller imaging IT companies like Digisonics (2020), Ambra Health (2021), Insignia (2021), Lumedx (2021), Life Image (2022), and PenRad Technologies (2022).
After taking a few years to digest the new companies, Intelerad began focusing on moving its technology and customers to cloud-based architecture, such as by releasing a cloud-native version of its InteleHeart software and by moving its PACS, VNA, and image-sharing applications to AWS cloud hosting.
GE needs no introduction, of course, but the company clearly sees the attraction of Intelerad’s core market in outpatient imaging, which complements GE’s focus on larger hospitals and health systems.
In a conversation with The Imaging Wire, Scott Miller, president and CEO, Solutions for Enterprise Imaging at GE HealthCare, explained several of the acquisition’s advantages …
- Imaging exams are moving from hospitals to outpatient centers due to lower costs.
- Outpatient facilities are following hospitals in moving their data to the cloud, putting Intelerad at the intersection of two major trends.
- Intelerad’s geographic focus has been on English-speaking countries, giving GE the opportunity to plug Intelerad products into its international distribution network.
GE estimates that Intelerad will generate $270M in revenue in its first full year under GE ownership.
- Intelerad’s sales have been growing at a rate in the low double digits, and GE expects that pace to accelerate.
Is the new acquisition a sign of growing consolidation in the radiology AI and image management sectors?
- Other recent purchases in 2025 include Radiology Partners’ purchase of Cognita Imaging, Lunit’s acquisition of Prognosia, and GE’s own purchase of icometrix, completed earlier this month. RadNet also acquired iCAD earlier in the year.
The Takeaway
GE’s acquisition of Intelerad offers multiple benefits to the multimodality OEM, from Intelerad’s presence in the outpatient imaging sector to its experience in cloud-based image management and broad product portfolio. The question is whether the purchase spurs other big iron vendors to answer with acquisitions of their own.
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Discover What’s Next in Radiology at RSNA 2025
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It’s Time to Make AI Adoption Simple
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Every Image Tells a Story at RSNA 2025
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- CT Lung Guidelines Miss Patients: Another study has found that lung cancer screening criteria based on current guidelines are missing at-risk patients. In a paper in JAMA Network Open, researchers looked at almost 1k patients diagnosed with lung cancer from 2018 to 2023, finding that only 35% met USPSTF criteria, with women and never-smokers often excluded. Expanding the criteria to 40-85 years of age, 10 or more pack-years of smoking, and no limit due to smoking cessation would boost the rate to 62%.
- Essential AI for Lung Cancer Screening: AI is no longer being viewed as a diagnostic aid but as essential medical infrastructure. Nowhere is that more apparent than in CT lung cancer screening, with Germany and other European Union countries embedding AI into their screening programs. Many are turning to Coreline Soft’s AI solutions, and at RSNA 2025 the company will introduce the latest version of its chest AI platform, AVIEW 2.0.
- Lung Cancer Stage Shift: A New York City hospital saw a sharp reversal in late-stage lung cancer cases since adopting a lung screening and nodule follow-up program. Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center serves the Bronx community, which prior to the program had higher lung cancer mortality rates than other NYC boroughs. But since 2021, the hospital has seen its rate of late-stage diagnoses fall (53% to 34%) while stage I diagnoses grew (26% to 45%), a classic example of a screening stage shift.
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- Quibim Updates Prostate MRI Software: Quibim will highlight a new version of its QP-Prostate solution for AI analysis of prostate MRI exams at RSNA 2025. The enhanced version includes an upgraded user interface as well as 3D advanced visualization and editing tools that enable clinicians to explore prostate anatomy in more detail and support biopsy targeting and planning. QP-Prostate outputs a structured report that merges AI findings with radiologist annotations and clinical standards.
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- FDA Clears Canon Hybrid Interventional Room: Canon Medical Systems USA received FDA clearance for the latest generation of its hybrid CT/interventional X-ray room. Alphenix 4D CT with Aquilion ONE/Insight Edition marries an Alphenix Sky+ angiography system with Canon’s latest super-premium CT scanner, Aquilion ONE/Insight Edition. In other Canon RSNA 2025 news, the company’s MRI division is highlighting the vertical integration of its portfolio, from in-house design to manufacturing of key components like magnets and RF coils. The company is also migrating its Version 10 software to 1.5T scanners.
- Riverain Added to Peer-Review Software: Peer-review software company Zauron Labs added applications from Riverain Technologies to their Guardian Pro solution. Riverain’s ClearRead CT and X-ray cardiovascular AI suite will be added to the Guardian Pro portfolio, improving its ability to help detect pulmonary nodules and perform coronary artery calcification scoring.
- Imorgon Releases V2 Software: Imorgon is releasing version 2 of its structured radiology reporting software at RSNA 2025. Imorgon v2 includes expanded data integration with DICOM SR measurements, built-in retrieval of prior measurements, integrated decision support, intelligent text generation, and enterprise EHR integration with Epic and other solutions.
- TestDynamics Debuts AI Network: TestDynamics is entering the AI networking segment with the launch of Amalgamated Intelligence, a new infrastructure that gives clinicians a single view of their AI assets within their existing workflow. The concept fuses findings and insights from multiple algorithms into a single data stream, and is delivered over the company’s Satori offering, which provides access to third-party AI algorithms over a single user interface.
- Hyland Strikes Digital Path Alliance: Hyland inked a partnership with Tribun Health to bring Tribun’s digital pathology image analysis solutions into Hyland’s enterprise imaging ecosystem. Tribun’s technology will be integrated with Hyland offerings like its Acuo vendor-neutral archive and NilRead zero-footprint image viewer. Hyland will highlight the partnership at next week’s RSNA 2025. Hyland adds to Tribun’s enterprise imaging partners, following previous launches with GE HealthCare and Canon Medical.
- CureMetrix Partners with Therapixel: CureMetrix signed a partnership with Therapixel that integrates each company’s mammography AI technologies. CureMetrix’s cmAngio software for calculating breast arterial calcification from mammograms will be available through Therapixel’s MammoScreen breast cancer AI software, giving users a two-for-one test to detect both breast cancer and cardiovascular disease in women.
- Barco Launches 3D Displays: Medical display developer Barco is releasing new monitors that provide advanced visualization without the need for 3D glasses. Barco partnered with Avatar Medical in developing its Eonis 3D and Eonis Vision displays, which support augmented reality clinical applications. Eonis 3D is a 27-inch monitor while Eonis Vision is a higher-end solution that includes Avatar’s 3D software to convert CT and MRI scans into interactive 3D avatars.
- DeepHealth to Deploy Operations Suite: DeepHealth will be making the first installation of its Operations Suite software, at Wichita Radiological Group in Kansas. The group will be replacing its legacy RIS with the cloud-based application, which it will also use for implementing a modular suite of AI-powered applications.
- AIRS Medical’s Global Expansion: MRI acceleration software developer AIRS Medical reported international growth for its SwiftMR application, which is now in use at over 1.3k imaging centers in more than 40 countries. In particular, AIRS has made progress in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region, with new partnerships in the U.K., Portugal, Norway, Greece, Poland, Hungary, the UAE, and South Africa.
- Aidoc Lands Advent Health: Aidoc landed a contract to install its AI solutions at AdventHealth, a Florida-based hospital operator. Aidoc will deploy AI at dozens of AdventHealth hospitals and imaging centers in Florida and Kentucky.
- KA Highlights Dual-Energy DR: Technology from Canadian digital X-ray developer KA Imaging will be highlighted in two scientific presentations at RSNA 2025. The studies investigate the use of KA’s dual-energy Reveal 35C DR detector with SpectralDR technology to detect coronary artery calcifications on standard radiography exams. The second finds dual-energy chest DR produced results approaching non-gated CT for detecting CAC.
- Konica Minolta Touts RSNA Studies: Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas is pointing to seven scientific presentations to be given at RSNA 2025 on its dynamic digital radiography technology. DDR acquires up to 15 sequential radiographs per second and presents them in a cine loop, and RSNA papers will show the technique’s utility in clinical applications from interstitial lung disease to pulmonary blood flow assessment.
- Shimadzu Updates Mobile X-Ray: Shimadzu Medical Systems USA will show a new configuration of its flagship mobile X-ray system at RSNA 2025, MobileDaRt Evolution MX9. The c type version of the system includes camera-based imaging support, as well as a tube-mounted monitor that provides a secondary workspace for technologists. MobileDaRt Evolution MX9 is now available in three configurations.
- Nanox Makes Moves: Digital X-ray developer Nanox made several moves on the eve of RSNA 2025. First, the company signed a partnership with 3D post-processing services provider 3DR Labs that will make Nanox AI solutions available to 3DR customers, including HealthCCSng for cardiac imaging, HealthOST for bone, and HealthFLD for liver. Next, Nanox plans to acquire health IT implementation firm VasoHealthcare IT for $800k. VHC IT’s operational and customer support infrastructure will be integrated with Nanox.AI’s CT solutions.
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Building the Future of Radiology
Visit Medality at RSNA 2025 booth #1140 to learn how they are at the forefront of radiology practice growth and training as the simulated learning platform that everyone loves. Book a demo today.
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- Reshaping the Future of Medical Imaging: Get ready for an unforgettable experience at RSNA 2025, where United Imaging will unveil major innovations that can reshape the future of medical imaging. Visit them at booth #1929 to see their comprehensive multimodality portfolio.
- Reshaping the Future of Medical Imaging: Get ready for an unforgettable experience at RSNA 2025, where United Imaging will unveil major innovations that can reshape the future of medical imaging. Visit them at booth #1929 to see their comprehensive multimodality portfolio.
- Meet Merge at RSNA 2025: From first click to final read, Merge accelerates your workflows with imaging solutions designed by people who think like you. Book a meeting at RSNA 2025 booth #6100 to get your own live demonstration.
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