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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Colorado radiologist helps change the state's breast density law

A new state law in Colorado requires radiologists to include patients' breast density in mammography results letters, thanks to the research and advocacy of Centura Health radiologist and legislative chair for the Colorado Radiological Society Taj Kattapuram, MD.  

ACR awards Northeast Radiology high distinction

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has awarded Northeast Radiology the distinction of being a Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence (DICOE).  

ACR’s Data Science Institute launches new website

The American College of Radiology (ACR) Data Science Institute (DSI) launched a new website that helps users understand and participate in radiology development.

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Can Radiology Fix its PR Problem?

It's Worth Our Time to Address Common Misconceptions 

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Taking a Seat at the Table: 5 Ways Radiologists Can Demonstrate Value and Increase Their Influence

As healthcare continues to shift its focus from quantity to quality, radiologists have a chance to demonstrate their value and show that, yes, they deserve a seat at the table when it comes to discussing the present and future of patient care in the United States. So will they seize that opportunity?

Harvey L. Neiman Institute awarded $3.7M grant from NIH for clinical research center

Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute has been awarded a five-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a core center for clinical research to promote musculoskeletal clinical research.

How to increase female medical student interest in radiology

Interest in radiology among female medical students remains practically unchanged over the last few decades, prompting researchers to look into what the specialty can do to reverse that trend once and for all.

4 keys to building successful mentorship programs in academic radiology

As in most industries, mentorship is recommended within academic radiology because it can boost confidence, promote job satisfaction, avoid early burnout, promote patient safety and facilitate professional success in the future.

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.