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.

Radiologist Nicola Part of Team Selected as ACEP Choosing Wisely Champions

Reston, VA – Gregory N. Nicola, MD, FACR, chair of the ACR Economics Committee on MACRA, is among a team of physicians chosen by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) as Choosing Wisely “Champions.”

Concordia Care acquires Atlantic Imaging Group

Concordia Care, a Miami-based care-coordination company, announced it has completed the acquisition of New Jersey-based Atlantic Imaging Group (AIG).

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Q&A: Bill Lacy on why radiologist excitement is growing around Fujifilm’s AI initiative

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Artificial intelligence (AI) was the center of attention at RSNA 2017 in Chicago, and FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. got in on the fun by unveiling its new AI development initiative from its booth at McCormick Place. Bill Lacy, FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. vice president of medical informatics, spoke to us after the show about both the history behind the initiative and its bright future.

CT, 3D printing unveil face of 9,000-year-old Greek teen

Using CT and 3D printing, researchers unveiled the reconstructed face of a teenager, Avgi, who lived in the Mesolithic period, around 7,000 B.C.

RLI Executive Leadership Symposium headed to Virginia in June

The Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) Executive Leadership Symposium is scheduled for June 20-22, 2018, at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia.

National Breast Cancer Foundation announces inaugural awards luncheon

The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) has announced its inaugural 2018 Women of Hope Awards luncheon.

New conference to highlight digital health technologies

The Dev4Health Conference, a new joint initiative created by Health 2.0 and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), released an schedule for its inaugural gathering.

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How to repair a rocky relationship between radiology, EM departments

When healthcare providers act in an unprofessional manner, it can have a negative impact on patient care. So what are leaders to do when they notice unprofessional behavior spreading throughout entire departments? The authors of a recent analysis in the Journal of the American College of Radiology noticed a brewing feud between their institution’s radiology and emergency medicine (EM) departments—and decided to do something about it.

Around the web

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.

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.