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.

Researchers develop active listening system for creating ‘workforce wellness culture’ among healthcare workers
Healthcare leaders looking to optimize their workplaces for the health and wellbeing of healthcare workers have a new model from which to draw how-to tips, ideas and guidance.
New group names 4 things US healthcare can—and should—handle on behalf of Alzheimer’s patients, caregivers
Alzheimer’s disease already has the nation in a crisis of care capacity. The pressure to do more in response is mounting. Meanwhile the true total cost is hard to estimate since so many dementia caregivers are unpaid family members and other volunteers.
Teenage cannabis users twice as likely as non-users to develop psychosis, bipolar disorder
The new research doesn’t solve the mystery of which tends to come first—the mental illness or the drug use. Regardless, the large study serves to underscore the need for proactive and preventive measures.
Nurse suing hospital for failing to head off vicious attack by patient
A hospital and its security contractor are facing legal trouble over a brutal beating taken by a unit nurse at the hands of a mentally ill inpatient a year ago.
Health system redesigns its imaging management structure around modalities, rather than operating lines
At Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, this fractured approach had resulted in uneven technologist staffing, variable asset utilization and scheduling, and diverging modality quality and safety practices.

Researchers develop active listening system for creating ‘workforce wellness culture’ among healthcare workers

Healthcare leaders looking to optimize their workplaces for the health and wellbeing of healthcare workers have a new model from which to draw how-to tips, ideas and guidance.

New group names 4 things US healthcare can—and should—handle on behalf of Alzheimer’s patients, caregivers

Alzheimer’s disease already has the nation in a crisis of care capacity. The pressure to do more in response is mounting. Meanwhile the true total cost is hard to estimate since so many dementia caregivers are unpaid family members and other volunteers.

Teenage cannabis users twice as likely as non-users to develop psychosis, bipolar disorder

The new research doesn’t solve the mystery of which tends to come first—the mental illness or the drug use. Regardless, the large study serves to underscore the need for proactive and preventive measures.

Nurse suing hospital for failing to head off vicious attack by patient

A hospital and its security contractor are facing legal trouble over a brutal beating taken by a unit nurse at the hands of a mentally ill inpatient a year ago.

Health system redesigns its imaging management structure around modalities, rather than operating lines

At Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, this fractured approach had resulted in uneven technologist staffing, variable asset utilization and scheduling, and diverging modality quality and safety practices.

GE HealthCare's $35M federal partnership to fund AI-powered ultrasound research

Funds will be directed toward the development of new point-of-care tools that reduce the reliance on operator experience, improve reproducibility and increase diagnostic speed.

AI news & views roundup: AI-burdened nurses, AI-stealthy doctors, patient AI collaborative, more

Nurses are struggling to accept workplace assistance from AI. Not all, of course, but enough of them that those who appear to be resisting the relentless march of progress catch the public’s eye.

Teenage sexting a health-and-safety risk to reckon with

Around a third of teens between 13 and 17 years old are involved with sexting—either as senders, receivers or both. Among the senders, around half become victims of unwanted re-sharing.