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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Radiology experts warn of unintended consequences stemming from imaging price transparency efforts

Researchers are expressing concern that this information may be motivating some to shy away from undergoing scheduled exams. 

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Rising workloads spur academic radiologists to spend less time training residents

“This increase in workload could impact the time available to dedicate to teaching the next generation of radiologists and has additional implications regarding burnout,” one expert noted. 

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Radiologists issue ‘call to action’ on looming liver disease ‘crisis’

Imaging plays an essential role in addressing hepatic steatosis. Yet, radiologists have had almost zero involvement in shaping medical knowledge about the disease. 

Factors that fuel patients’ failure to follow-up after ‘probably benign’ breast findings

Age, race, whether they underwent MRI or ultrasound, insurance coverage, and other factors correlated with patients no-showing following a BI-RADS 3 designation. 

Bonnie Little-Hildebrandt Wake Radiology

Wake Radiology names director of business development, plus more leadership moves

Flywheel has appointed a new CEO, Orlando Health has selected a director to oversee its imaging centers, and more from Vanderbilt, Yale and MemorialCare.  

Cardiologists have performed what they believe to be the world’s first substernal lead extraction, sharing their experience in JACC: Case Reports.[1]The device being extracted, Medtronic’s Aurora EV-ICD, received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in October 2023.

Cardiologists perform world’s first substernal lead extraction

The 49-year-old patient was not in pain or suffering any complications, but he wished to have his extravascular ICD removed once his symptoms improved. The care team agreed to extract it after a long discussion, and they said it was "easier than expected." 

The ASPR’s National Disaster Medical System field hospital set up in the parking lot at Mission Hospital in Asheville this past week to augment the hospital's emergency department and help decompress the pressure on the hospital in the epicenter of the Hurricane Helene disaster. Photo by ASPR

Asheville's Mission Hospital is in the center of Hurricane Helene disaster recovery

The hospital was prepared for Hurricane Helene and has maintained operations, despite being in the epicenter of destruction.

The temporary rock bridge is now allowing access to the Baxter North Cove IV bag plant in North Carolina, which has enabled cleanup crews to begin work on the flooded plant that supplies 60% of U.S. IV bags.

Baxter works to get North Carolina IV plants back online as national shortages loom

Baxter's IV plant in North Carolina was flooded by Hurricane Helene. That plant provides 60% of the U.S. supply of IV bags. 

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