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.

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What radiology leaders can learn from the world’s ‘Blue Zones,’ where people live significantly longer

“Radiology, by nature, presents a unique challenge to physician well-being,” Cody R. Johnson, MD, and colleagues write in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

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Radiologist ponders: ‘If private practice is so great, why are so many groups struggling?’

Ben White, MD, a Texas neuroradiologist and writer, recently posed the question on his blog and offered five possible reasons why life is hard for this model of care. 

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Simple IT tweak fuels same-day radiologist reads and clinic visits

Radiologists have helped devise an approach that allows patients to receive imaging results during a same-day appointment. 

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Radiology provider LucidHealth names new chief financial, strategy officers

Jim Moake is joining the Columbus, Ohio-based provider group as CFO while Jason Mullis, MBA, is the company's new CSO, both effective Jan. 1. 

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Private equity-backed teleradiology group offers insights from global survey of 700 rads

Everlight Radiology recently hired research Censuswide to poll members of the specialty, sharing 5 key findings from the survey on Monday. 

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Rayus Radiology names new CEO, plus more leadership moves at Envision, Penn Medicine and St. Jude

Sami Abbasi, MBA, is taking over the organization’s top post after spending three years as managing director and operating partner at Sun Capital Partners. 

How radiologists can help tackle the rad tech ‘workforce crisis’

Indiana University radiologists explore how 1 organization lost 80% of its sonographers in a month, detailing 3 ways peers can avoid such a situation in their own organizations. 

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Rayus Radiology CEO stepping down, plus more leadership moves

In other news, MedQuest has named Warren Christopher Shea as its chief legal officer, while Memorial Sloan Kettering picked Kimberly Feigin, MD, to oversee breast imaging. 

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The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.