Health and Human Services Secretary Katherine Sebelius is considering a run for Sen. Pat Robert’s (R-Kan.) Senate seat, according to the New York Times. Her entry into the race would likely raise the national profile of the contest in which Tea Party-backed radiologist Dr. Milton Wolf is facing off against Roberts in the primary.

SALEM, N.H.--Gamma Medica, developer of advanced digital molecular imaging technologies for the detection of breast cancer, announced today that it has formed a strategic advisory board comprised of distinguished clinicians and thought leaders with expertise in women’s health technologies and diagnostic imaging. Robert Cascella, former chief executive officer of Hologic, will chair the strategic advisory board. The board will provide strategic and operational counsel as Gamma Medica continues the development and commercialization of its LumaGEM® Molecular Breast Imaging system.

The Ohio State Medical Association has named Dr. Peter Lafferty the Physician Innovator of the Year.

David H. Ring, M.D., Jr., has been appointed to the Broward Health Foundation board of directors.

There are certain times in every market life cycle that are defined by the decisions and actions of certain visionaries who not only see where their profession is headed, but can find ways to be in the lead as the rest of the pack plays catch-up and waits for stronger signals or more certainty.

Humans resist change: This is the bane of leaders, both seasoned and new to the game—particularly, at the moment, in health care. N. Reed Dunnick, MD, says, “We have many things going on, in our field, that require us to change.”

It’s the assumption at the core of GE, IKEA, and Unilever’s strategies; its presence, or lack thereof, guides the investments of billionaire Warren Buffett, among others. Sustainable competitive advantage sounds like something that every business, in every industry, would want to secure. With the advent of digitization and globalization, however, along with continual emergence of disruptors from every corner, is focusing on sustainable advantage still the best way to achieve success?

Welcome to the results of the sixth annual radiology-group survey. Recently, I had lunch (at a conference on health care’s future) with the former CEO of a large teleradiology company, and he asked how radiology groups were responding to changes in the marketplace. Over the years, we had discussed that we both felt that radiology groups would get larger and that we would see national radiology groups, in the future. The question was never whether this would happen—but rather, when. I think that the answer is either soon or now.