March 24, 2009 – Mark G. Watson will become the RSNA’s new executive director on April 1, 2009.

Watson comes to the position with nearly 20 years of experience working in key capacities at RSNA and has served as the Society’s interim executive director since September 2008.

March 24, 2009 - Frost & Sullivan has awarded GE Healthcare with the 2009 Growth Strategy Leadership of the Year Award in Medical Imaging.

The award is based upon Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis of the medical imaging market segment, which recognizes the growth path that GE embarked upon following its acquisition of Dynamic Imaging (DI) in October 2007.

March 24, 2009 - Frost & Sullivan has awarded Philips Healthcare with the 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation of the Year Award for its Brilliance iCT 256 slice and iCT SP 128 slice computed tomography (CT) systems.

March 24, 2009 - Medi-Future Inc. and Three Palm Software have signed a partnership agreement, in which Medi-Future will distribute Three Palm Software’s WorkstationOne product as part of its mammography product suite.

March 23, 2009 – McKesson recently signed a three-year agreement with VHA Inc., a national healthcare alliance committed to helping its members improve their clinical and financial performance, to install the McKesson Performance Analytics product as its enterprise business intelligence solution.

March 23, 2009 - The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) in Canada has selected Agfa Healthcare’s IMPAX Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) to migrate its regional radiology services to a digital environment.

March 23, 2009 - Administrators at Jupiter Medical Center’s Imaging Department installed the Canon DR system, as well as the RadPRO40KW Digital Mobile and the RadPRO OT-2 overhead radiography system, to streamline various workflow segments associated with traditional diagnostic procedures reported Virtual Imaging Inc.

March 23, 2009 - It is essential that image archive storage solution providers, PACS vendors and image modality manufacturers become aware of the growing requirements of storage space, according to Frost & Sullivan.

March 23, 2009 - FiatLux Imaging and Panasonic Computer Solutions Co. will demonstrate at HIMSS 2009 the advanced visualization capabilities of FiatLux Visualize optimized for the next generation of tablet computers for the healthcare industry including the new the Panasonic Toughbook H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA).

March 19, 2009 – Decatur Memorial Hospital, a 356-bed hospital in Decatur, IL, earned first place in McKesson’s second annual computerized physician order entry (CPOE) competition held in late February for improving patient outcomes and reducing variability in the blood transfusion process.

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