Eli Lilly’s board of directors has appointed John C. Lechleiter, PhD, chairman of the board effective Jan. 1, 2009.

Duane Sachs has joined Carestream Health as chief corporate developmentofficer and a member of the company’s senior leadership team.

Teleradiology provider, NightRays Radiology has appointed Alan B. Stone, MD, as its vice president of medical services.

Allscripts has integrated its ePrescribe electronic prescription software with Google Health.

In asymptomatic adults, CT colonographic screening identified 90percent of subjects with adenomas or cancers measuring 10 mm or more indiameter, according to the ACRIN trial in the Sept. 18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Getinge has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Datascope, acardiac device company, for all of the outstanding shares of its commonstock for $53.00 per share, which will total approximately $865 million.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has named eight new commissioners and re-appointed five existing commissioners to serve two-year terms on its 21-member board beginning in October.

The majority of radiologists at eight academic medical centers are dissatisfied with their ability to access clinicalpatient information at the time of interpretation, according to resultsfrom a report published online before print in the Journal of Digital Imaging.The report also indicates that the lack of access to pertinent clinicalpatient data may be a critical element that limits the accuracy of theradiologist’s diagnostic decision-making process.