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.

In-house 3D print shops may save time, cut costs, earn end-users’ applause

Surgeons and other interventionalists who tapped an academic radiology department’s 3D printing service to plan and practice upcoming procedures saved almost half an hour per operation over the course of a year. 

ACR, other groups cry foul over insurers’ methods for calculating out-of-network payments

Payers have been using rates agreed to by PCPs to justify underpaying specialists such as anesthesiologists, emergency physicians and, yes, radiologists.

Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law—what does it mean for healthcare?

The act is Biden’s third major piece of legislation to sign into law since the start of his term, and it accomplishes a healthcare task the Democrats have been wanting for years: enabling Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.

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CDC director slams agency's response to COVID-19 pandemic

“For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for Covid-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,” said Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New national board forms, opens training course in radiological AI

An educational outfit has sprung up to equip nonphysicians working in radiology—chiefly administrators, business managers and technologists—with radiologist-level fluency in AI.

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On back of Dobbs, employers add travel benefits for abortion care

Out of 305 U.S. employers surveyed, 35% said they now offer travel and lodging benefits for elective and medically necessary abortions.

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Movers & Shakers: Intermountain Healthcare, MemorialCare announce exec changes

Check out the latest roundup of the latest executive movements in the healthcare industry, including changes at Intermountain Healthcare and MemorialCare.

William C. Roberts, MD

‘A giant in medicine’: American Journal of Cardiology editor steps down after 40 years on the job

William C. Roberts, MD, has long been one of cardiology’s leading voices, contributing to more than 1,600 academic articles and working in a variety of roles for the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and National Institutes of Health.