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.

American Board of Radiology to require side-view cameras for future remote exams

To help defray the cost, the Tucson, Arizona-based doc-certification group is crediting candidates $40 toward future fees. 

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100-year-old radiologist dies from COVID-19

Kenneth Kaess' career spanned decades and took him to all corners of the country, according to a death notice published in local newspapers. 

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American Board of Radiology warns of phone scam targeting test takers

ABR emphasized Wednesday that it will never call diplomates asking for payment on the spot. 

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Imaging provider Solis Mammography enters 10th major market with latest partnership

The Addison, Texas-based radiology firm now operates more than 85 imaging centers, both wholly owned and via hospital joint ventures. 

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CEO of private equity-backed Center for Diagnostic Imaging stepping down after 6 years

Kim Tzoumakas, 21st Century Oncology's former chief exec, is assuming the role and plans to guide the radiology firm through its next growth phase.

Scaling up radiology resources could avert 9.5M deaths while saving trillions, global imaging leaders charge

The finding is part of a groundbreaking new report supported by more than two dozen worldwide leaders in cancer care. 

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Breast radiologists reporting high levels of psychological distress during the pandemic

Such struggles persisted across all demographic groups, with young and/or female physicians hit hardest, according to a new survey.

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Decades-old radiology practice selling off assets to local hospital and closing office

Northern Radiology Imaging has served New York's Northern Country region for more than 70 years, but will close on March 5. 

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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.