GE has established Research Circle Technology Inc. (RCT), a new entity formed to accelerate and enhance the development of metabolic imaging and other innovative technology.

The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has launched www.healthIT.gov, a new website intended for use by health care providers and consumers.

The vacancy rate for radiologic technologists (RTs) has declined for the eighth consecutive year, to 2% in 2011, reveals a new report from the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT).

Ninety-one individuals, including physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals, have been indicted for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $295 million in false billing, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Kathleen Sebelius, secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced

U.S. House of Representative appropriators have indefinitely postponed plans to consider the 2012 spending bill for health programs. The review had been scheduled for Friday morning.

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has enrolled the first patients in RSNA Image Share, its project to develop a network for the sharing of medical images among patients and physicians.

The health care sector continues to go against the hiring trend, adding 29,700 positions in August of 2011 despite the lack of job growth in all U.S. markets for that same time period, according to a report issued Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Health care industry employment has grown by 306,000 jobs over the past 12 months, the report

In another move to more firmly establish a foothold in the Northeast, Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Virtual Radiologic (vRad), the largest teleradiology group in the U.S., has forged a partnership with Diagnostic Imaging Inc., a private radiology practice headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.