If U.S. physicians adopted the practices of providers that deliver high-quality care at a cost 20 percent lower than the average, the country could save $640 billion in healthcare costs, according to a Perspective published online May 18 in New England Journal of Medicine.

Following a low of 2.6 percent in 2010, the percent of radiation therapy job openings to the total number of professionals employed increased to 3.1 percent in 2011, according to a survey conducted by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT).

Ochsner Health System has completed an EMR renovation project with an assist from enterprise visualization company iRise.

On the heels of Colorados investigation into preventive imaging provider Heart Check America, a South Carolina office of the companys sister group, Cancer Check America, has come under separate investigation from South Carolinas Department of Health and Environmental Control.

Carestream Health has reached an agreement with PenRad Technologies to market PenRads patient tracking and mammography information system to U.S. healthcare providers.

Hospitals in the Helse Nord region of Norway have signed a four-year agreement with Sectra.

Onslow Memorial Hospital, a healthcare provider in Jacksonville, Fla., has signed a contract with Language Access Network (LAN), remote language interpretation services provider to the healthcare industry, to provide  hospital video language interpretation services.

Delta Health Alliance (DHA), one of 17 sites nationwide selected by the federal government to serve as a Beacon Community for health IT, will collaborate with Medicity to enable providers serving the Mississippi Delta to collaborate more easily to improve disease management.