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.

POCUS access: Urban oases, rural deserts

Fewer than 40% of rural counties in the U.S. can offer residents any access to point-of-care ultrasound, while nearly 90% of their metropolitan counterparts have POCUS aplenty. 

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What deters women and minorities from pursuing careers in radiology?

Experts involved in the survey cautioned that the stagnancy of diversification is driving women and minorities away from the field completely, and efforts to change this are missing the mark. 

RSNA flagship journal soars in influence; Lancet bumps NEJM on strength of pandemic publishing

Editor David Bluemke, MD, PhD, says the journal’s rising impact factor is “representative of the fundamental importance of imaging throughout our hospitals and clinics.”

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How the Supreme Court's environmental ruling impacts healthcare

The Supreme Court has issued another landmark ruling, rolling back authorization of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to regulate greenhouse gas––and the healthcare industry isn’t happy about it.

Scholars unpack the ‘Toyota Way’ to depict the radiology ideal

More than most companies, Toyota is led from the bottom up as much as from the top down.

FDA grants IDE clearance for next-phase trial of ‘Flash’ radiation therapy

A cancer-care technology company that was acquired by one of the world’s largest imaging OEMs a year ago has received an Investigational Device Exemption from the FDA.

Image interpretation vs. workflow interruption: Quantified, analyzed, strategized

Upon commissioning a business process improvement team to meticulously track interpretative uptime, a 13-radiologist group learned its members had been spending nearly as many hours navigating interruptions as reading images.

'Unconscionable': Healthcare's reaction to the Roe v. Wade decision

In wake of the Supreme Court’s vote to overturn Roe v. Wade––the historic court case that set a precedent for the Constitutional right to abortion care for the last nearly 50 years––healthcare industry groups and leaders have come forward speaking out against the decision.