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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Building a Better Day

We all know good chemistry makes good relationships. But did you know chemistry has everything to do with having a good day—right down to thinking more clearly, getting more done and making meetings more productive?

RadNet, Inc. Announces the Addition of Lawrence Tanenbaum, M.D. to Its Operational and Clinical Management Teams

RadNet, Inc.(NASDAQ:RDNT), a national leader in providing high-quality, cost-effective diagnostic imaging services through a network of owned and operated outpatient imaging centers, announced today the addition of Lawrence N. Tanenbaum, M.D., FACR to both its operational and clinical teams.

ABIM could end 10-year MOC exam after task force recommendations

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is considering new ways to improve its Certification and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) programs, including putting an end to the 10-year MOC exam. Ending the 10-year exam was one of the many recommendations given to ABIM by the Assessment 2020 Task Force, an independent group made up of ABIM leadership and experts from a variety of relevant industries. 

MILabs takes home WMIS innovation award

Frederik Beekman, CEO and CSO of MILabs, won the World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) Commercial Innovation of the Year Award at this month’s World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) in Honolulu, Hawaii. 

Nevada radiologist honored with lifetime achievement award

Interventional radiologist Paul Bandt, MD, received the Healthcare Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this month for his decades of service and innovation throughout the state of Nevada. 

Merge and RAD-AID Team Up to Help Developing Countries

Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ:MRGE) today announced a new global collaboration with the nonprofit organization, RAD-AID International, (US Registered 501c3) to bring vital radiology and health information technologies to medically underserved and poor regions of the world. 

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Stanford chair of radiology calls for increased focus on early detection

The World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) held its 2015 World Molecular Imaging Congress last week in Honolulu, Hawaii, gathering leaders from throughout the industry to present their latest research. During the conference, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, 2017 WMIS president-elect and chair of the department of radiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, spoke to the media about what he considers one of the most important issues facing molecular imaging today: an increased focus on early detection. 

Lantheus Holdings names new president, CEO

Lantheus Holdings, the parent company of global imaging manufacturer Lantheus Medical Imaging, announced last week that Mary Anne Heino has been named president and CEO. She is also now one of the company’s directors. 

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.