Stamford, CT -- FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA has been awarded a new, three-year, dual-source contract by Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P. for a comprehensive assortment of medical film and imagers, including conventional wet film, mammography film, dry film, and the complete line of laser imagers.

Effective September 1, 2008, this award combines two contract categories previously held by Fujifilm into one category. Premier has merged the conventional, or wet imaging products contract with the dry, or laser imaging products, enabling their 2,000 US hospitals and 53,000-plus other member sites to more readily benefit from the quality Fujifilm products at cost effective terms.

Fujifilm's full line of DryPix imagers for both centralized and decentralized environments are included on the contract, as well as the spectrum of medical imaging films including double emulsion, dry laser, dry thermal, mammography and others.
"As long as the need exists, we remain committed to delivering the medical imaging market with a leading line of high quality products for hard copy image interpretation," said Phil Buffington, Fujifilm's Executive Director, National Accounts. "Fujifilm's continued success within the market affirms our ability to deliver film and imaging solutions that help increase efficiency along with diagnostic quality for today's modern radiology departments," affirmed Buffington.

This new award is in addition to the computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) contracts already in place between Fujifilm and Premier.

About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Serving more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and 53,000-plus other healthcare sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming healthcare together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation's most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information. A subsidiary operates one of the nation's largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups. A world leader in helping healthcare providers deliver dramatic improvements in care, Premier is working with the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.

About FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA, Inc.

As one of the FUJIFILM Corporation family of companies with 70 years of imaging experience and almost $25 billion in sales, FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA is a leading provider of diagnostic imaging products and network systems to meet the needs of healthcare facilities today and well into the future. Fujifilm's family of Imaging Systems products and technologies-including digital x-ray, women's healthcare imaging, dry imagers, and conventional x-ray film and equipment-are tailored to suit many different applications for a variety of imaging environments. The pioneer in the field, Fujifilm remains the market leader in digital x-ray with products that are clinically proven and constantly evolving to set the standard in digital imaging innovation. FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

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