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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Radiology provider Envision suspending contributions to lawmakers who opposed election certification

CEO Jim Rechtin said the pause will last through 2021, emphasizing that the physician firm’s political activities must reflect “our values as a national medical group."

January 18, 2021
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Solis Mammography acquiring largest radiologist-owned practice in the Washington metropolitan area

Around since 1975, Progressive Radiology dubs itself as the “leading” provider of outpatient imaging services in Illinois, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. 

January 15, 2021
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Early career radiologists must educate themselves about the perils of private equity-backed imaging

That's according to an opinion piece from one resident physician, published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

January 15, 2021
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For radiology practices, 4 financial lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

Experts from five leading medical centers offered their money must-dos in a review published Wednesday in Academic Radiology. 

January 14, 2021
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Longtime Mississippi radiologist, health board leader and ACR honorary fellow dies from COVID-19

Ed Dalton Barham, MD, spent 35 years at Merit Health Woman’s Hospital in Flowood, serving as CMO and board chairman at the time of his death. 

January 13, 2021
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Controversial radiologist and former White House COVID-19 advisor Scott Atlas deletes Twitter account

He told reporters that the platform’s decision to purge some 70K users after Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill influenced his thinking. 

January 12, 2021

Judge tosses doc’s second attempt at suing American Board of Radiology over MOC fees

A federal judge dismissed the suit last week, determining that attorneys failed to adequately argue that ABR violated antitrust rules. 

January 12, 2021
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Independent imaging practice coalition Strategic Radiology names new CEO

The longtime Texas neuroradiologist replaces Arl Van Moore Jr., MD, who is retiring from the post this month. 

January 7, 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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