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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New museum showcases history and pioneers of radiology

The ASRT Museum and Archives, a 4,500-square-foot museum full of fun exhibits and one-of-a-kind historical pieces, opened in June at the ASRT’s national office in Albuquerque, N.M. 

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Lantheus Holdings welcomes new board member

James Clemmer is the newest member of the Lantheus Holdings board of directors, the company announced late last week. 

FujiFilm Sonosite announces new healthcare leadership

FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc., specialists in designing cutting-edge ultrasound tools and world-leading education for access to point-of-care visualization, today announced changes in its executive leadership, effective July 1, 2015: Naohiro Fujitani was named Chairman; and Masayuki Higuchi was named President and CEO, succeeding Mr. Fujitani in this position.  

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Be happier at work

Finding a happy place at work may seem like mismatch—or if you are lucky, the norm. In healthcare, we strive to keep patients happy. Happy providers make happy patients. But sometimes we need some help in boosting our own happiness.

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RLI medical director ready to help his fellow radiologists

The ACR has named Frank J. Lexa, MD, as medical director of the Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI). 

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Gaining insight by doing nothing

The other day I saw this headline and stopped. “The Art and Science of Doing Nothing.”

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Diversity in radiology lags, but discussion in JACR clarifies path to progress

Over the past year, a dialogue has developed in the pages of the Journal of the American College of Radiology that sheds light on the complexities and differing perspectives related to diversity in the fields of radiology and radiation oncology.

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For med school students, these may well be the best of times

Did you know that the headcounts of medical students and the schools that train them are both on the rise? I don’t know why that fact surprised me when I heard it recently, but it did. Maybe my thinking on the subject is stuck in the many years when the major national concern was a doctor glut. 

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.