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.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and several other health care organizations are voicing increasingly strenuous objections to a multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR) set forth by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in its 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule.

The health care employment picture may be rosy compared to other sectors, but the outlook for U.S. not-for-profit hospitals is negative, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service.

Rural health networks nationwide will receive more than $11.9 million to support their adoption of health information technology (HIT) and certified electronic health records (EHR), the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced last Friday.The funding is also intended to assist participating eligible providers of these rural health

A comprehensive anti-fraud initiative undertaken by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under health reform law will soon force some physicians in the Medicare program to revalidate their individual enrollment records, the agency has announced.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has appointed six eminent leaders from academic and private practice radiology to serve on the board of directors of its Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI), radiology’s first professional development and leadership academy.

In a transaction worth 57.5 million Euros, Royal Philips Electronics, parent company of Philips Healthcare, has completed its acquisition of the mammography business of Linkoping, Sweden-based Sectra, a PACS and digital mammography developer.