Last February, IBMs Watson supercomputer captured the worlds imagination when it bested a pair of Jeopardy champions. However, the game show represents the tip of the iceberg as far as meaningful applications of the technology.

Two days after announcing its plan to cut 80 jobs, orthopedic device-maker Wright Medical named a new president and CEO. Robert J. Palmisano, former chief of ev3, which makes endovascular devices and was purchased by Covidien, took the helm at the Arlington, Tenn.-based company Sept. 17.

Jorge Alsip, MD, was recently appointed the first CMIO at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System.

TeraRecon highlighted iNtuition Cloud system at this years annual meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE), held in Munich Sept. 10-14.

Charles J. Zelnick, MD, has been named CMIO at Blue Hill Memorial Hospital in Blue Hill, Maine.

For national and local health information exchanges (HIEs) running on the CONNECT platform, theres a new version 3.2.1. CONNECT that uses Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) standards and governance to make sure that HIEs are compatible with other exchanges being established across the country.

Siemens Healthcare Molecular Imaging will unveil its Inveon Research Workplace (IRW) 4.0, the newest version of its image visualization and analysis software package for preclinical imaging applications, particularly for small animal imaging, at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) 2011, Sept. 7-10 in San Diego.

CSC has named David Levitt vice president of health information technology solutions (HITS) for its North American public sector (NPS) health services division.