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.

COVID lockdown reopening

Major imaging groups launch campaign urging patients to ‘return to care’

Industry advocates such as RSNA and the American College of Radiology are concerned about recent reports of consumers putting off imaging amid fears of contracting COVID-19. 

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Subspecialists must maintain general radiology skill set ahead of future crises, experts say

In larger academic medical centers, it is common for radiologists to spend entire careers never deviating from their narrow expertise, physicians wrote in Clinical Imaging

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Registration now open for RSNA’s 2020 virtual gathering

Typically held in Chicago, this marks the first time ever that America’s largest radiology conference will take place exclusively over the web. 

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Confronting COVID’s ‘brutal reality’ while plotting radiology’s post-pandemic future: 5 factors to watch

ACR President Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, detailed planning advice from her own institution in a new opinion piece, published in JACR

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Radiologist spearheads pilot allowing COVID patients to talk with relatives via walkie-talkie

Weill Cornell Medicine's Marc Schiffman, MD, and a colleague came up with the idea after finding that video chats were too depressing for families and time-consuming for nurses. 

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Conducting video interviews during the COVID pandemic: Radiology experts offer their advice

Both imaging giant Radiology Partners and Boston University Medical Center shared hiring best practices from their institutions this week. 

Mednax names new CEO amid plans to exit radiology

The Florida-based physician firm has selected Mark Ordan—who previously led publicly traded long-term care real estate firm Quality Care Properties—as its new chief executive. 

Carl Fuhrman

Renowned Pittsburgh professor, radiologist and nine-time Golden Apple winner dies

“He was probably the best teacher in our profession,” said longtime colleague and friend Jules Sumkin, DO. 

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.