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.

Seeds of solidarity? UK radiologists face probable pay cuts too

Two weeks ago CMS proposed a 2023 physician fee schedule (PFS) that stands to slash pay to U.S. diagnostic radiologists by 3% and interventionalists by 4%. This week the U.K.’s National Health Service put that country’s radiologists in a similar bind.

Pioneer heart surgeon and philanthropist Allan Lansing dies at 92

Allan Lansing, MD, PhD, performed the first coronary artery bypass in the state of Kentucky. He also volunteered to help patients all over the world and was publicly honored by President George H. W. Bush in 1991. 

President Biden tests positive for COVID-19

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House confirmed.

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Inflation eating away hospital margins

Hospitals and health systems have been facing tight margins over the past few years during the COVID-19 pandemic, and with historic inflation, things aren’t likely to get better anytime soon.

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Female authorship in radiology on the rise but still low in relative terms

Female authorship in musculoskeletal radiology research has seen a steady climb over the last two decades—a positive trend that is indicative of progress in a field where leadership is largely dominated by males. 

Radiology, meet ‘3D-based superconducting radiofrequency computers’

What do you get when you combine MRI with quantum computing? The world will soon find out.

Technologist ‘learning opportunities’ vastly outnumber imaging ‘do-overs’ across almost 1 million exams

Reviewing a 20-month run with a radiologist-to-technologist communications tool, researchers have found minor problems with image quality 10 times more common than patient callbacks for repeat imaging.

Generic CT contrast supplier pledges ‘immediate relief’ from shortage

A global tech and pharma vendor is set to inject U.S. healthcare with a set of generic contrast agents, the first of which will be an FDA-approved substitute for GE Healthcare’s Visipaque.