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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RSNA doling out more than $4M in new grants to dozens of researchers

Altogether, the society's Research and Education Foundation is supporting 93 projects across 47 different institutions, officials announced Tuesday. 

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Physicians ask American Board of Radiology for greater lactation leeway when taking exams

Leaders with the American Association of Women in Radiology made their plea in an editorial published in Clinical Imaging.

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Testing smell, rather than fever, may be radiology practices’ best bet for screening patients

One recent study noted that patients with the disease were 27 times more likely to have lost their olfactory senses, compared to just 2.6 times more likely to display chills or an elevated temp. 

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JACR revising disclosure guidelines amid concern of corporate influence in noted imaging journal

Editor-in-Chief Ruth Carlos, MD, recently spelled out some of the changes in the July issue of JACR. 

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Hospital picks former radiologic technologist as its first-ever chief of cancer services

St. Anthony Regional Hospital announced that Lori Pietig will take over the new role this summer after more than 16 years with the institution.

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Florida radiology practice having patients snap pics of referrals, driver’s licenses to limit contact

Tampa-based Tower Radiology hopes the new registration process will help to shorten lobby wait times while improving the patient experience. 

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Former radiologic technologist named speaker of the Pennsylvania House

It took 45-year-old Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster County, just 13 years to ascend from x-ray tech to the most powerful position in the Keystone State’s General Assembly. 

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ACR backs hospitals’ push to extend COVID-19 public health emergency beyond July

The American Hospital Association first made its plea in a letter to Health and Human Services leadership. 

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Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

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‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.

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GE HealthCare moves PET/CT scanner production to United States

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.