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.

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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.

5 reasons radiologists should feel confident about learning—and teaching—AI

For years radiology educators have been reassuring prospects, recruits and trainees that artificial intelligence can only—and will only—assist or augment radiologists. And still a nervous concern continues to come up. 

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Radiologist starting salaries up 13.5% over last year

Radiologists are receiving salary offers averaging $455,000 to start a new job in 2022, up from $401,000 in 2021.  

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Where money is tight, screening mammography is conditionally cost-effective compared with other proactive options

In countries with low to middling gross national incomes, screening mammography appears to be a cost-effective means of minimizing breast cancer’s economic costs and public-health burdens at the population level. However …

True or false? ‘AI does not influence radiologists’ performance’

A healthcare AI startup in Silicon Valley is partnering with a top-tier medical school—and hopefully a few good radiologists—to test a hypothesis that’s increasingly crucial to radiology.