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.

Thumbnail

Hill joins Medical College of Wisconsin radiology leadership team

Gregory Q. Hill, JD, has accepted the position as Medical College of Wisconsin Radiology department administrator.

Thumbnail

Radiology: a man’s world?

Assuming the American College of Radiology’s latest workforce survey reflects the radiology specialty in toto, male radiologists practicing fulltime outnumber their female peers more than 8 to 2.  

Thumbnail

Incoming CEO Reicher: Time to embrace the end of proprietary interfaces

When news broke Feb. 2 that Murray Reicher, MD, had been named chief executive of DR Systems, the San Diego-based supplier of PACS, RIS and EHR systems, more than a few folks surely reacted with an audible “Huh?” After all, Reicher is well known as the founder of the 25-year-old company. Hadn’t he been running it all along?

2014 Best in KLAS: DR Systems ranks #1 for radiology

Leading imaging company recognized as top-ranked radiology software vendor by customers.

Thumbnail

Dr. Murray Reicher named CEO at DR Systems

Co-founder and nationally-recognized health IT innovator assumes expanded role at leading enterprise imaging company.

Professional Radiology, Inc Aligns with the Strategic Radiology national consortium

Strategic Radiology® (SR) announced today that Professional Radiology, Inc. (PRI) of Cincinnati, OH has joined forces with the SR network of progressive, independent radiology groups geographically dispersed throughout the US.

RLI awards first Certificate of Leadership Mastery™

Reston, Va. (Jan. 28, 2015) — Ian Weissman, DO, is the first Radiology Leadership Institute® (RLI) participant to complete all four levels of the RLI program and earn a Certificate of Leadership Mastery™.

Thumbnail

Siemens names new healthcare leadership team

The German industrial giant Siemens has appointed a new team of executives to run its healthcare business. Siemens has named Bernd Montag, the current CEO of the Imaging and Therapy Systems Division at Siemens AG, to head the company’s healthcare division, replacing Hermann Requardt, who is stepping down after leading the business since 2001.

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.