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 who use ‘dysfunctional’ coping strategies increase risk of experiencing anxiety by 125%

"Behavioral disengagement" produced the greatest uptick at 169%, according to international survey results shared June 8 in Academic Radiology

June 10, 2021
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5 pitfalls radiologists should avoid during malpractice depositions

Radiologists rarely provide such testimony, posing challenges when confronted by an experienced attorney, experts wrote. 

June 10, 2021
Options for choosing transgender gender sex or gender choice are now offered in most PACS and RIS systems.

Use of gender-specific, exclusionary titles such as ‘chairman’ still common among radiology departments

Adopting inclusive leadership roles may help the male-dominated specialty move away from bias, experts wrote in Academic Radiology

June 8, 2021
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How leaders can smooth radiologists’ return from parental leave

This issue is particularly important as program directors strive to bolster female rad ranks and make the specialty more inclusive. 

June 7, 2021
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American Board of Radiology will hold all exams remotely through 2022

The ABR has not yet determined whether remote testing will continue in 2023, a spokesman said.

May 28, 2021
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More evidence female radiologists are bearing the brunt of COVID-19’s impact on imaging

Female physicians with young children reported a “significant” decrease in work-from-home productivity compared to males in the same situation. 

May 26, 2021

Private equity-backed LucidHealth inks partnership with ‘prominent’ Midwest radiology practice

The physician-owned management company's footprint now covers 29 hospitals and more than 100 clinics in the Badger State.

May 21, 2021
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RSNA affirms commitment to in-person meeting in 2021: ‘Ready to get back to Chicago’

The announcement comes the same day HIMSS said it will require attendees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 if they want to attend its Las Vegas conference in August.  

May 17, 2021

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"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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