Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) in Bergen County, NJ, and Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine, won for their excellence on multiple levels and superior patient care

An American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) official spoke in favor of appropriate use criteria to reduce inappropriate cardiac imaging in his testimony to the U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee

Rather than a “reboot” of the meaningful use incentive program — as six Republican Senators asked for last month — the program just needs more time, say executives at the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives

San Diego-based Visage Imaging Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd. ,has signed a five-year agreement with vRad to implement the Visage 7 Enterprise Imaging Platform

New screening recommendations from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) recommend offering low-dose CT chest imaging as a lung cancer screening test in patients at high risk of lung cancer

The annual Medscape Physician Compensation Report puts the average radiologist's income at $349K, but the rate of compensation increase &mdash a tiny 1% from 2011 — is near the bottom for medical specialties

Its second quarter revenue of $619.1 million missed its projected revenue by $20.43 million and sent its stock price down 3 percent

Adventist Health System/West and its affiliated hospital White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles will pay the government $14.1 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act