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 and activist Herbert Abrams passes away

Influential radiologist Herbert Abrams, MD, died last week at his home. He was 95.

Radiologist passes away after tragic skiing accident in Utah

Douglas Green, MD, a radiologist at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, Wash., died last week in an avalanche while skiing in Utah. He was 49.

Missouri radiology professor named India's Person of the Year in Science

Kattesh Katti, PhD, a professor at the University of Missouri (MU), has been named the 2016 Person of the Year in Science by Vijayavani, a daily newspaper in the Indian state of Karnataka. 

4 tips for developing your business strategy

Do you know your practice’s business strategy? Or, perhaps a more relevant question: Does your practice have a business strategy? 

John Fennessy, influential radiologist, passes away

John Fennessy, professor emeritus and former chair of the University of Chicago department of radiology, died earlier this month from complications following cardiac surgery. He was 82. 

Ed Yoder, former AHRA president, passes away

Ed Yoder, CRA, former AHRA president, died last weekend after a difficult battle with cancer. The announcement came from current president Ernesto A. Cerdena, PhDc, RT, CRA, who wrote about Yoder for the AHRA’s Link blog. 

SHINE Medical Technologies founder honored by University of Wisconsin-Madison

Greg Piefer, PhD, founder and CEO of SHINE Medical Technologies, has been awarded the Early-Career Achievement Award by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering.

Director of rad department, others still inside hospital during attempted demolition

Doctors, including the director of the hospital’s radiology department, were treating patients like normal when the bulldozer tore through the wall of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in Henan Province’s Zhengzhou City.

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.