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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Use of gender-specific, exclusionary titles such as ‘chairman’ still common among radiology departments

Adopting inclusive leadership roles may help the male-dominated specialty move away from bias, experts wrote in Academic Radiology

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How leaders can smooth radiologists’ return from parental leave

This issue is particularly important as program directors strive to bolster female rad ranks and make the specialty more inclusive. 

American Board of Radiology will hold all exams remotely through 2022

The ABR has not yet determined whether remote testing will continue in 2023, a spokesman said.

More evidence female radiologists are bearing the brunt of COVID-19’s impact on imaging

Female physicians with young children reported a “significant” decrease in work-from-home productivity compared to males in the same situation. 

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Private equity-backed LucidHealth inks partnership with ‘prominent’ Midwest radiology practice

The physician-owned management company's footprint now covers 29 hospitals and more than 100 clinics in the Badger State.

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RSNA affirms commitment to in-person meeting in 2021: ‘Ready to get back to Chicago’

The announcement comes the same day HIMSS said it will require attendees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 if they want to attend its Las Vegas conference in August.  

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Newly launched Radiology Health Equity Coalition highlights specialty’s central role in addressing disparities

ACR President Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, introduced the group during her presidential address. 

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54% of radiologists work in private practice, while other docs report lower ownership levels

The AMA survey found that 49% of patient care physicians worked in doc-owned practices, down from 54% in 2018 and the largest two-year change since the survey started.