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.

Too much medical imaging, too little time to fix what’s broken?

A leading U.K. radiologist tells what he saw as this challenging scenario snowballed into being and what he believes must be done to make matters more manageable.

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Final 2023 physician fee schedule out from CMS; early reactions register exasperation, resolve

CMS has finalized the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for 2023, and its reimbursement reductions for radiology are less harsh than those proposed preliminarily in July.

14 House members—7 Democrat, 7 Republican—press CMS to step up its game on CCTA

A bipartisan group in the U.S. House is asking CMS to acknowledge the cost-effectiveness of coronary CT angiography by comprehensively covering the exam for patients who present with acute but stable chest pain or other early signs of arterial plaque buildup.

Referrer–radiologist agreement nets 75% follow-up imaging rate, and certain factors can inform interventions for the other 25%

When referring physicians agree with radiologists’ recommendations on the clinical necessity of follow-up imaging, three-quarters of patients go on to complete the additional exam.

Prenatal ultrasound pioneer passes away

A trailblazing radiologist who was drawn to the specialty partly because she struggled to comprehend written words but excelled at unpuzzling visual patterns has died at 73. 

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Contrast-enhanced mammography to get rigorous tryout under ACR’s oversight

Might mammography enhanced by contrast media prove a surer, faster way than other modalities—including digital breast tomosynthesis—to get to a definitive diagnosis for women with dense breast tissue? The American College of Radiology wants to know.

Survey spurred by ‘general need for more public transparency’ sheds light on editorial leadership at imaging journals

At scientific journals focused on medical imaging, 82% of editors-in-chief and 30% of editorial board members receive financial compensation for these side jobs.

Burnout-busting partnership said to signal ‘a major shift in how physicians will be supported in the future’

A telehealth practice active in all 50 states has hired a similarly sprawling behavioral-health consultancy to provide physicians with pro-wellbeing, anti-burnout counseling and related services.

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.