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.

Frequent AI use may increase radiologists’ risk of burnout
The problem is particularly pronounced among members of the specialty who already have a high workload or are skeptical of artificial intelligence.
Radiology Business Announces Forty Under 40 Class of 2024
We set out to find radiology and imaging up-and-comers under 40 who stand out, landing on a laudable list of radiologists, interventionalists, business leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, educators, AI developers, technologists and mentors.
Cardiologists reflect on developing primary PCI in face of criticism and pushback
SCAI celebrated cardiologists William W. O'Neill, MD, and Cindy L. Grines, MD, for the important roles they played in the development of primary PCI. “It was challenging,” Grines explained. “We had the pharmaceutical industry that was anti-primary angioplasty and we had a lot of our own colleagues that were anti-primary angioplasty."
Hospitals pilot policies to test older radiologists’ mental and physical fitness
About 5% of U.S. healthcare organizations have now implemented such competency testing, with about 13% of physicians deemed unfit for the job.
7 facts about RSNA 2024, which is less than 1 month away
The Radiological Society of North America’s 110th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting is set to begin on Dec. 1 in Chicago.

Growing imaging group Pediatric Teleradiology Partners inks 2 new partnerships

South Florida Radiology recently launched the venture to provide pediatric imaging access amid a nationwide shortage of such specialists.

April 1, 2022

Konica Minolta Healthcare names new president and CEO

Fumihiko Hayashida assumed the role on Friday, April 1, taking over for the retiring David Widmann.

April 1, 2022

Changes in Radiology Partners’ Office of the Chief Medical Officer

The El Segundo, California, industry giant created the office in 2021 after the departure of its first-ever CMO, Jay Bronner, MD.

March 30, 2022

‘Dramatic’ rise in image-guided procedures performed by NPs and PAs rather than radiologists

The specialty has still performed the lion's share of thoracentesis and paracentesis, but advanced practice providers are making steady inroads, experts wrote in JACR.

March 28, 2022

Regardless of specialty, female physicians spend more time in the EHR than men

“Our findings provide a potential mechanism for the gender gap in burnout, which has implications for workforce mental health and physician retention,” experts wrote Thursday.

March 25, 2022

COVID-19 coronavirus burnout depression pandemic

Nearly 30% of interventional radiologists experienced significant stress amid pandemic, new survey finds

The results could indicate increased vulnerability to burnout and anxiety among the subspecialty, experts wrote in the journal of CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology.

March 23, 2022

Top 10 CEOs transforming healthcare

The U.S. healthcare system has been through the paces over the last few years, with leaders making transformational changes to their organizations to keep up and stay ahead.

March 22, 2022

Richard Duszak, MD, appointed as University of Mississippi Medical Center's chair of radiology

A noted member of the specialty, Duszak was the founding CEO of the Neiman Health Policy Institute and has authored more than 200 articles, among other accomplishments.

March 22, 2022

Leadership

Frequent AI use may increase radiologists’ risk of burnout

Radiology Business Announces Forty Under 40 Class of 2024

Cardiologists reflect on developing primary PCI in face of criticism and pushback

Hospitals pilot policies to test older radiologists’ mental and physical fitness

7 facts about RSNA 2024, which is less than 1 month away