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.

RSNA 2015 checklist: 6 can’t-miss sessions about leadership and management

A total of 21 presentations scheduled for RSNA 2015 in Chicago fall under the conference’s “Leadership/Management” category. Attending each and every one would be impossible, but catching at least one a day? No sweat! Here’s one presentation you won’t want to miss for each day of RSNA 2015.

ACR names Chatfield vice president for quality and safety after Wilcox retires

Mythreyi Bhargavan Chatfield, PhD, is the new American College of Radiology (ACR) executive vice president for quality and safety, the ACR announced this week. Chatfield is currently serving as the organization’s senior director for data registries. 

Damon Griffith Joins eRAD as Manager of Channel Sales

eRAD, Inc., a division of RadNet, Inc. and an industry leader in Web-based RIS, PACS and teleradiology workflow solutions, is pleased to announce that Damon Griffith has joined the company in the capacity of Manager, Channel Sales.

Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology opens new location in Levittown

Long Island, N.Y.-based Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology opened its newest location in Levittown,  N.Y., on Oct. 31. It is the company’s 18th location overall. 

New ACR Education Center physician-in-chief to focus on modality training, program expansion

The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced this week that Pablo R. Ros, MD, PhD, the ACR Education Center’s new physician-in-chief, will come into the role with a focus on modality training and expanding the program. Ros, a diagnostic radiologist, is also now a member of the ACR Commission on Education. 

Columbus Radiology names new vice president of operations

Columbus Radiology has hired Jason Dodgion to be the its new vice president of operations, the company announced this week. 

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Happy National Radiologic Technology Week!

Did you know that we’re currently in the middle of another National Radiologic Technology Week? It’s time to celebrate! 

Hemophilia Federation of America Receives Donation of Christie VeinViewer Flex

Christie Medical Holdings Inc., a global leader in portable vein imaging systems to aid in venipuncture procedures, has donated a VeinViewer® Flex to the Hemophilia Federation of America (HFA) as part of the Christie CARES philanthropy program.

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.