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.

Why hospitals suffered financially in 2022—and a look ahead to 2023

Health Exec caught up with Erik Swanson, senior vice president of data and analytics at Kaufman Hall, to learn more about the underlying trends throughout 2022 and what hospitals are bracing for in 2023.

JACR’s top 5 articles of 2022

The Journal of the American College of Radiology has named five peer-reviewed papers its best of the year.

Urinary stones in the ED: What will it take for ultrasound to gain ground on costly, radiative CT?

Professional consensus supports the use of ultrasound for initial imaging evaluation of patients presenting in the ED with suspected urinary stone disease (USD). However, as of 2018, only 2% of these patients received ultrasound while some 59% had CT.

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World’s leading cardiology groups say it is time to rethink RCTs

The American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, European Society of Cardiology and World Heart Federation all collaborated on a joint statement aimed at updating the rules and regulations associated with randomized clinical trials

coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine vaccination

Biden’s winter preparedness plan includes more free COVID-19 tests

The Biden administration plans to make more free, at-home COVID-19 tests available to Americans as part of its newly announced winter preparedness plan.

NCI director announces breast cancer diagnosis

The director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, revealed her breast cancer diagnosis on Dec. 14.

Gabler Survivor Heart Valve Specialist TAVR

Mike Gabler, a heart valve specialist with Edwards Lifesciences, wins Survivor—and donates his $1M prize

Gabler, a Texas native, has two decades of experience in the cardiology space, spending the last 11 years with Edwards Lifesciences. He has also previously worked for both Medtronic and Boston Scientific.

Andrei Churyla, MD, Douglas Johnston, MD, and R. Kannan Mutharasan, MD, tour a clinic room designed for future AI technology pilots at Palos Hospital.

Northwestern Medicine opens advanced outpatient cardiac clinic at suburban Chicago

Northwestern Medicine opens a new outpatient cardiology clinic to address better patient access to care in Chicago's south suburbs.