Leadership

This news channel page highlights examples of leadership in hospital and health systems. While healthcare leadership is often seen as the positions of chief executive officers, chief clinical officers, chief of staff, and chief information officers, it also can can be other individuals or the entire healthcare system that shows unique ways to enhance patient care and manage strategies, quality, safety and revenue initiatives.

Sectra CEO Torbjörn Kronander

Sectra CEO discusses new partnership with GE and what’s on tap at RSNA

Torbjörn Kronander said the Sweden-based imaging IT company's primary focus is addressing radiologist burnout and the heavy demand on the specialty.

November 26, 2023
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Radiology Business Management Association Executive Director Bob Still to retire

The RBMA board has agreed to form an Executive Director Search Committee, chaired by Past President Mark Kalmar.

November 21, 2023
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5 guiding principles for establishing a point-of-care ultrasound program

Collaboration between various support personnel and buy-in from all stakeholders are crucial to program success, experts wrote in JACR

November 20, 2023
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Should diagnostic and interventional radiologists practice separately? Imaging groups to discuss at town hall

IR's evolution as a primary specialty, coupled with an "explosion" in diagnostic exams, have contributed to friction between the two professions. 

November 17, 2023
To tackle health disparities between Chicago’s West Side and wealthier, predominantly white neighborhoods elsewhere in the city, Rush University Medical Center is leading a group of nine hospitals and health systems to make investments and hire people from disadvantaged communities.

Radiology services much harder to come by if you’re Black or Latino and living in the US

Relative to other hospitals, those serving racial and ethnic minorities had significantly lower odds of offering 7 of 12 diagnostic radiology exams, new research shows.

November 16, 2023
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Fairfax Radiology adds 2 new locations, 15 physicians in M&A deal

Acquiring the Association of Alexandria Radiologists will pave the way for expansion and allow the practice to provide a single standard of care for Inova Health.

November 16, 2023
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Radiologists grab much smaller share than cardiologists of burgeoning interventional market

Endovascular procedure volumes surged 427% among cardiologists between 2010-2018, compared to a 125% uptick among radiologists. 

November 15, 2023
Mercy Medical Center Redding

Healthcare giant Dignity Health acquiring 70-year-old radiology practice

MD Imaging sees about 500 patients a day, but like others, has grappled with economic challenges including rising costs and decreasing reimbursement.

November 15, 2023

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"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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