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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Hospital quality improvement project aims to reduce radiologists’ administrative burden

The University of Toronto has standardized processes related to multidisciplinary conferences, hoping to provide relief for participating abdominal specialists. 

Kees Wesdorp

RadNet hires private equity firm leader as new CEO of its Digital Health Division

Kees Wesdorp, PhD, will be based in the Netherlands, collecting an annual base salary of $705,000 and an incentive bonus equal to that amount. 

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‘Understaffing is ubiquitous’ in radiology, according to new ACR/RBMA workforce survey

About 69% of radiologists surveyed in 2023 said their organization is understaffed, up from 67% the previous year, the two associations reported. 

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RadNet hosts summit to discuss staffing challenges, state of the imaging industry

The publicly traded, Los Angeles-based company is convening an all-day event in Maryland, where it operates nearly 60 outpatient imaging centers. 

Wake Radiology

Wake Radiology announces hiring of 8 physicians, plus more staffing news

Also, Envision shakes up its leadership team, Wake Radiology says a key physician is retiring and VUMC names a new section chief in emergency radiology. 

RSNA reports cybersecurity incident potentially impacting personal information

UPDATED: The society emphasized that there is no evidence the information has been used for identity theft or financial fraud. 

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Obituaries: Melvin E. Clouse, MD, 90, shaped understanding of cardiovascular and interventional radiology

Other passings of note in the last month included Kevin Gude Ryan, MD, 89; Burton Silbert, MD, 91; and Robert Smith Howard II, MD, 62. 

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How aspiring radiology residents can win the ‘application arms race’

There has been a "notable" uptick in interest for diagnostic and interventional radiology, with experts recommending a shift in strategy to help standout in the process. 

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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.

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

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