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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Radiologists issue ‘call to action’ on looming liver disease ‘crisis’

Imaging plays an essential role in addressing hepatic steatosis. Yet, radiologists have had almost zero involvement in shaping medical knowledge about the disease. 

Factors that fuel patients’ failure to follow-up after ‘probably benign’ breast findings

Age, race, whether they underwent MRI or ultrasound, insurance coverage, and other factors correlated with patients no-showing following a BI-RADS 3 designation. 

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Wake Radiology names director of business development, plus more leadership moves

Flywheel has appointed a new CEO, Orlando Health has selected a director to oversee its imaging centers, and more from Vanderbilt, Yale and MemorialCare.  

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Radiologists rarely represented in movies, limiting patient awareness about the specialty

Based on an IMDb search, radiologists appear as key parts of the plot in about 19 titles, with only nine available on major streaming platforms. 

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2 radiology chairs step down at academic institution

The resignations include Garry Gold, MD, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, who is vacating his role as department chair, effective Oct. 1. 

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Academic radiology faculty face salary gaps across nearly all ranks

The salary gap remains at about 6%, with male academic radiologists earning about $483,000 versus $455,000 for women, experts wrote in Radiology. 

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Only 12% of medical students stick with radiology from matriculation to graduation

Meanwhile, 52% of students stay with orthopedics from start to finish, placing it No. 1 ahead of neurosurgery (42%) and pediatrics (41%). 

CDC highlights radiology’s critical role in striving for ‘hospital diagnostic excellence’

DxEx, as the agency calls it for short, ensures that imaging and other tests are ordered, interpreted, communicated and acted upon appropriately. 

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American College of Radiology announces significant expansion of Lung Cancer Screening Registry

The ACR hopes these changes, including the addition of diagnostic performance feedback, will help reduce the number of patients with incidental nodules lost to follow-up each year.

Health Imaging
AI reduces CT lung cancer screening workload by nearly 80%

And it can do so with almost 100% accuracy as a first reader, according to a new large-scale analysis.

Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.