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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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. 

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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

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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. 

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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. 

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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."

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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. 

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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

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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. 

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.