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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Pediatric radiologists launch first hospital channel on ‘Instagram for doctors’

Radiologists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have blazed a new trail in social media, making their workplace the first hospital to have its own channel via an image-sharing app unofficially dubbed “Instagram for doctors.”

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DR Systems becomes part of Merge Healthcare; Reicher named chief medical officer

DR Systems, the privately held supplier of PACS, RIS and EHR systems based in San Diego—a highly regarded fixture in the radiology IT space for close to a quarter-century—has been acquired for $70 million by publicly traded Merge Healthcare.

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4 ways to become a more strategic leader

Herminia Ibarra debunks the notion that a few uninterrupted hours of thinking each week would result in better strategic ideas.

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Wilson named CEO of nation’s largest private radiology practice

Radiology Associates of North Texas (RANT), the number one practice on Radiology Business Journal’s ranking of the 100 largest private radiology practices, has hired Corbin Wilson, JD, CMPE, as CEO after a ten-month search.

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Searching for tomorrow's imaging engineers

At the current rate of innovation in healthcare and technology, how do we keep our kids informed of the types of careers available to them?  

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Welcome Back, Kotter

Leaders in all sectors of American business have been leaning on John Kotter’s 1996 change management Bible, Leading Change, for close to 20 years.

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Shared Management: A Manifestation of Imaging 3.0

Imaging 3.0 is the ACR’s manifesto for moving radiologists from volume-based to value-based care; transactional to consultative medicine; radiologist-centered to patient-centered care; and finally, after years of discussion, from invisible to visible, or at least more accountable, explains Syed Zaidi, MD, president, Radiology Associates of Canton, Ohio.

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Direct messaging: Radiological communications at the speed of bytes

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The ubiquity of mobile computing across society and throughout healthcare has sharply raised expectations around the speed of communications. Where once referring physicians anticipated waits of several days to receive radiology reports, whether by courier, fax or sometimes even snail mail, they now bristle at lag times measured in hours or even minutes. Increasingly, patients want the same for themselves.

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.