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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5 avenues along which the 10-year-old Society of Abdominal Radiology is advancing

Did you know the SAR formed when the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists merged with the Society of Uroradiology?

GE HealthCare hires former Amazon, FDA exec to oversee science and technology operations

A med-tech leader of note is taking skills refined at Amazon, the FDA and the CDC to GE HealthCare, where he will serve as the newly independent company’s first CTO. 

Healthcare leaders react to $1.7T government funding bill

Healthcare stakeholders throughout U.S. medicine, including radiology leaders, aren’t waiting for the ink to dry before speaking their minds.

Radiologists exhorted to take charge of change (or learn to live with receding relevance)

The unfolding scenario is packing some serious threats to the livelihoods of the unprepared.   

JACR’s top 5 articles of 2022

The Journal of the American College of Radiology has named five peer-reviewed papers its best of the year.

Urinary stones in the ED: What will it take for ultrasound to gain ground on costly, radiative CT?

Professional consensus supports the use of ultrasound for initial imaging evaluation of patients presenting in the ED with suspected urinary stone disease (USD). However, as of 2018, only 2% of these patients received ultrasound while some 59% had CT.

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Find It Early Act takes flight on Capitol Hill

Women with dense breasts or other heightened risk factors for breast cancer may be on the cusp of receiving 100% coverage for additional imaging beyond standard mammography.

ACR rolls out quick guide to LDCT incidental findings

Clinicians who routinely manage patients screened for lung cancer with low-dose CT have a new 1-page printout to illuminate evidence-based care pathways when faced with significant but questionably urgent incidental findings.

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Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.

Cardiovascular Business
GE HealthCare moves PET/CT scanner production to United States

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.