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.

Candescent Health appoints 3 new vice presidents

Candescent Health announced this week the addition of three new vice presidents. 

The future is now: 2 advantages of using more modern technology in radiology resident education

Recent technological advances have changed the way residents learn new information. And according to a study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, it’s now time for instructors to consider changing the way they teach. 

Charles Ray Jr. begins SIR presidency

The 6,100-member Society of Interventional Radiology has a new president. 

SIR honors radiologists at annual meeting

The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) posthumously honored Renan Uflacker, MD, earlier this week with its SIR Foundation Leaders in Innovation Award. The announcement was made at the organization’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Vancouver. 

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Q&A: Candescent Health founder and CEO Scott Seidelmann on radiology, being a healthcare entrepreneur, and more

Scott Seidelmann, founder and CEO of Candescent Health, spoke with RadiologyBusiness.com via telephone, providing insight into the current state of radiology and addressing some of the industry’s current challenges.

Expert on entrepreneurship to deliver keynote address at RLI conference

The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced this week that Leonard A. Schlesinger, DBA, MBA, Harvard Business School professor, will deliver the keynote address at the ACR Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) Summit. 

Radiology Associates raises $71,000 for breast cancer fundraiser

Radiology Associates in Corpus Christi, Texas, has been recognized for raising $71,000 for individuals diagnosed with breast cancer.

Radiology resident with business background shares story with ACR

Alexander Misono, MD, MBA, is currently a radiology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, but he actually worked in the management consulting industry before heading to medical school to begin his career in radiology. 

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.