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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Radiologist dies after being struck by drunk driver

Kenneth E. Najarian, MD, a radiologist at the University of Vermont Medical Center and professor at the University of Vermont, died tragically on June 17 when his bicycle was struck by a drunk driver. Najarian, 60, was married with two children. 

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Calgary Scientific Inc. hires Dave Waldrop to head global sales and marketing

Calgary – June 22, 2015 – Calgary Scientific Inc., a company known for creating innovative technology for the medical industry and beyond, announced today that Dave Waldrop has been named Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing.

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Woes and Wars at Work

When there is conflict and tension at work, do you fight, take flight or let it fester?

Fix boring board meetings by engaging attendees, staying on schedule

Tired of looking around the room at board meetings and feeling like nobody wants to be there? Those meetings can be more interesting and engaging, according to a recent web-exclusive article published by Trustee. 

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Fujifilm CEO pens book on ‘innovating out of crisis’

Healthcare managers challenged to adjust to the foundational changes transforming their industry might do well to take a page—literally—from a titan of the consumer business world. 

The Key to Precision Medicine: Imaging

In his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Obama released initial details of the Precision Medicine Initiative. 

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RBMA15 Snapshots

Snapshots from the RBMA Spring Summit, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 7-9, 2015 at Caesar's Palace.

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Many physicians disagree with sharing entire medical record

Two-thirds of physicians are skeptical of giving patients access to their “entire medical record,” according to a new poll conducted by the physician social network SERMO.

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.