Tuesday morning at AHRA 2017 in Anaheim, Calif., Michael A. Janis, MBA, explained that imaging leaders need two things to truly boost performance scores: a positive patient experience and engaged employees. Just having one of the two, he added, simply doesn’t cut it.

TUSTIN, Calif., July 10, 2017 – Building on a decade of financial aid for healthcare facilities pursuing greater patient care and safety, AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management and Toshiba Medical, a Canon Group company, announce the tenth year of their Putting Patients First program. Putting Patients First grants enable healthcare facilities to fund programs, training or seminars aimed at improving patient care and safety and customizing treatment in CT, MR, ultrasound, X-ray and vascular imaging. The grants are funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Toshiba Medical.

Burnout is real—and its affects can dampen personal fulfillment and lead to feelings of exhaustion. Radiology departments can act to combat the effects of burnout, but, with a multipronged problem deeply entangled in radiologists’ day-to-day work, a cure-all isn’t going to present itself.

Monday’s opening ceremony at AHRA 2017 in Anaheim, California, hit the audience with surf music, dancing and bouncing beach balls—and that was all before card tricks, toilet paper and a giant sword entered the mix.

Sanarus Technologies, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based medical device company specializing in cryoablation, has added radiologist Govindarajan “Raj” Narayanan, MD, to its board of directors. Narayanan is a professor of interventional radiology and chairman of the department of interventional radiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Employee engagement and patient experience are often regarded as separate courses in the hospital administration curriculum, but they are closely connected.

The medical school at Howard University in Washington, D.C., isn’t the first to add a dedicated radiology component for first-year students learning basic anatomy. But it has set the bar for others looking to offer clinical novices a meaningfully deep radiological dive in the face of limited resources—human as well as fiscal—and within an already-packed curriculum.

vRad, a MEDNAX company, announced Monday that it has received local recognition from the Minneapolis area for its corporate culture and its company wellness program.