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.

Radiology experiments with virtual visiting professorships amid pandemic

The idea is showing promising early returns, based on survey data, and may warrant further exploration, experts wrote in JACR

Radiology experts expect virtual residency interviews to persist beyond the pandemic

Researchers recently distributed a survey to nearly 200 program directors across the U.S., hoping to gather their thoughts on remote interviewing amid the COVID crisis. 

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Ergonomic improvements boost radiologist well-being while decreasing repetitive stress injuries

Simple changes, such as replacing busted chairs or utilizing comfier mouse pads, have produced marked gains for one imaging department, according to new survey data.

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Department-less 'hospital of the future' would cluster radiology near related services, cut patient travel 54%

Researchers utilized 3D software to simulate resulting workflows from this practice change, comparing them against a traditional hospital setting. 

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Noted radiologist urges specialty's return to days of communal eating during meal breaks

In medicine, the once-bustling break room has become a smaller, quieter, more sterile place, Richard Gunderman, MD, wrote recently. 

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Lynda Carter, TV’s original Wonder Woman, offers lessons learned for the field of radiology

The specialty needs more female role models like the famed superhero, who became a feminist icon in the 1970s, Carter wrote in JACR

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Hospital sees success deploying radiology trainees as at-home ‘teleresidents’

"Given concern over new variants, we believe that the home workstation program may continue to have a place in radiology training,” experts wrote.

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RSNA21: COVID-19 has exacerbated isolation in radiology, but offers clear paths to broaden its reach

Mary Mahoney, MD, explored these themes during her presidential address at RSNA's annual meeting. 

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.