The Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) and Toshiba are seeking applicants for their 2012 Putting Patients First Program, which could award as much as $60,000 in grant support to practitioners working to improve patient safety and comfort via best-practices education.

Maui Radiology Associates (MRA), which for years has enjoyed an exclusive contract to provide radiology services at the local Maui Memorial Medical Center (MMMC), is protesting a decision by the hospital to sign over those rights to the Dallas, TX-based teleradiology firm, RadCare.

Quality Care IPA, an independent physicians association serving the Las Vegas area, is adding Red Rock Radiology to its network.

For the first time since November 2009, a United States supercomputer holds the top spot on the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.

In support of a second round of start-up capital, representatives from SHINE Medical Technologies took their case to the Wisconsin business community at the state’s International BIO convention.

From 2001 to 2008, emergency department visits climbed faster than population growth by a factor of 60, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine this week—and although advanced imaging was a big factor in ER crowding, its significance was outweighed by that of standard clinical procedures.

The average, per capita cost of healthcare services—including Medicare and privately insured patients—is up six percent year-over-year in the month of April 2012, as measured by the S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index.

Canadian teleradiology vendor RamSoft announced that it has sold its PowerServer Tele Plus real-time digital environment to Hova Health, one of the largest teleradiology groups in Mexico.