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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Following intense pressure, American Board of Radiology plans to virtually administer exams beginning in 2021

Radiologists across the country had pushed for a 2020 offering of online testing. However, the Tucson, Arizona-based doc-certification group noted that it could not start with the transition until next year.

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Experts urge reopening radiology practices not to lose sight of childcare challenges

A team of Michigan Medicine experts spelled out some of their concerns in a new opinion piece, published in JACR.

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Imaging vendor Carestream names Medtronic vet Kristin Dietzler as president of its Americas Region

She'll take over the role “effective immediately,” and oversee the Rochester, New York-based firm’s imaging, nondestructive testing and dental businesses in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. 

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10 positive leadership qualities to foster now and carry into radiology’s next crisis

“Whether we acknowledge it or not, we are shaping the culture of our departments for years to come," experts wrote in Academic Radiology

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Mayo Clinic radiologist comes out as a trans woman, goes viral on Twitter

Evelyn Carroll, MD, said she recently brought her "authentic self to work for the first time" at the Minnesota-based institution. 

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American Board of Radiology leadership meeting this week to mull virtual test-taking options

The discussion comes following intense pressure from numerous imaging interest groups, who last week implored the ABR to offer alternatives during the pandemic. 

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Radiology provider Envision pledges change following recent racially charged violence: ‘This must stop’

CEO Jim Rechtin said such actions will include “reinvigorating” the Nashville physician firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and creating a plan within the next 60 days to promote change in its service areas. 

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6 key considerations for radiology human resources departments as practices reopen during pandemic

HR professionals’ duties will include everything from contacting furloughed employees to delegating screening tasks.

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.