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 log lower rates of entrepreneurship compared to other physician specialists

Rad business founders have dabbled in a variety of interests, ranging from yoga studios to bakeries, according to one MD researcher who recently explored this topic in JAMA Network Open

January 26, 2021
How radiology should prepare for AUC clinical decision support reporting requirements. CMS to require AUC CDS January 1, 2023.

American Board of Radiology shares early positive feedback from virtual test-taking transition

Earlier this month, ABR hosted its Diagnostic Radiology Certifying Pilot Exam, with 161 candidates taking part. 

January 25, 2021

Radiologist sues Boston Medical Center claiming pattern of gender discrimination prior to her dismissal

For its part, New England’s largest safety-net hospital called the claims “baseless" while emphasizing its culture of inclusion. 

January 25, 2021

Moody’s sees ‘significant execution risk’ as Radiology Partners integrates Mednax’s imaging business

On the plus side, the El Segundo, California, practice has increased revenues tenfold over the past five years through acquisitions and is in a strong cash position, the ratings service noted. 

January 22, 2021

Imaging administrators say improving staff morale a top priority after stressful 2020

One-third of practice leaders said they have been forced to freeze hiring and shed employee numbers among CT staffers to counter decreasing patient visits. 

January 22, 2021
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), a related organization of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), this week released a statement on the criminalization of medical errors. The APSF said criminal prosecution is unjust and counterproductive is healthcare organizations want to find ways to mitigate errors by understanding how they happen and create protocols or IT systems can can help prevent future errors. The criminal trial of nurse RaDonda Vaught was counterproductive to safety.

Time awake and hours slept significantly impact less experienced radiologists’ performance

That's according to a new investigation of sleep and how it affects physicians' ability to read images, published in JACR

January 21, 2021
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Stephen Hahn resigns as FDA commissioner, says he was ‘disgusted’ by Capitol Hill riots

A board-certified radiation oncologist, Hahn first joined the federal agency in December 2019, just before the COVID-19 storm hit. 

January 21, 2021
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Radiology Business Management Association postpones annual meeting due to COVID-19

RBMA certainly isn't alone, as numerous imaging conferences have been retooled or shelved over the past year. 

January 21, 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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