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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Half-century-old, 46-physician imaging practice in North Carolina joins Strategic Radiology

Triad Radiology Associates operates in the Winston-Salem market and has long-running relationships with the Novant Health hospital system. 

COVID Healthcare Workers

‘We’re terrified’: Report claims undercounting of healthcare worker deaths, noting rad tech’s recent passing

Inconsistent reporting by physicians and coroners, along with the exclusion of nonmedical pros such as shuttle drivers, meal delivery or custodial workers, are part of the problem. 

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Radiologist urges peers to carefully monitor ‘digital footprint,’ sleep on it before posting

The advice comes after a controversial recent incident on Facebook in which someone shared CT scans of a foreign body lodged in one patient's rectum. 

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American College of Radiology urges physicians to ‘mask up,’ fight COVID-19 misinformation

ACR joins the American Medical Association, which first launched the campaign last week as a means to “normalize” face coverings and “debunk myths.” 

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Radiology Partners continues to grow, adding two new states to its footprint, despite economic slump

The El Segundo, California-based imaging behemoth has expanded its services into New York and Missouri for the first time and added 82 new client sites in 2020.  

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HIMSS pushes 2021 meeting back 5 months: ‘We just felt that March was too much of a risk’

The Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society officially announced Friday that it’s moving HIMSS21 in Las Vegas back to Aug. 9-13. 

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Radiology Political Action Committee relaunches fundraising efforts suspended amid pandemic

RADPAC put its efforts on hold in mid-March but has kept busy in the ensuing months, advocating for PPE supplies, liability relief and small business loans.

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Radiology Partners president and first-ever chief medical officer stepping down

Jay Bronner, MD, is not taking a new position elsewhere, nor is he retiring, and Rad Partners plans to take the next “several months” to evaluate the C-suite role, leaders said.  

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.