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.

Radiology among the most male-dominated specialties, but pay gap may be narrowing

Male specialists earned an average of 27% more than their female colleagues, according to Medscape's new physician compensation survey.

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‘Dangerous’ scope-of-practice bills fail, while ACR joins Puerto Rican radiologists in another fight

Radiology societies said they were "deeply concerned" a proposed legislation would eliminate physician-led teams. 

Preparations underway for RSNA 2023 with important deadlines looming

This year's meeting will focus on how radiology professionals can be intentional and proactive in leading teams through an uncertain healthcare environment. 

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Radiologist’s widow sues practice, claiming she’s owed tens of thousands in pension payments

Mary Meszaros believes the benefits administrator erroneously calculated what she is owed and is asking a Connecticut judge to intervene. 

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EHR a key contributing factor to diagnostic errors in radiology, legal claims analysis finds

About 20% of the small sample of EHR-related errors occurred in radiology, informatics experts wrote in JAMA Network Open

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American Board of Radiology doing away with written certifying exam in diagnostic imaging

ABR plans on hosting a virtual town hall on Thursday, May 4, to answer questions about changes to its DR oral exam. 

29 radiology societies met to discuss the specialty’s most pressing problems: 8 takeaways

“Of these, the mismatch between the clinical workload and the available radiologist workforce was foremost," experts wrote in JACR

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Rayus Radiology leader becomes RBMA board president, plus more company news

Also, Ohio's largest radiology practice names a new leader, and Envision Healthcare misses a key financial filing deadline. 

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.