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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Ergonomic improvements boost radiologist well-being while decreasing repetitive stress injuries

Simple changes, such as replacing busted chairs or utilizing comfier mouse pads, have produced marked gains for one imaging department, according to new survey data.

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Department-less 'hospital of the future' would cluster radiology near related services, cut patient travel 54%

Researchers utilized 3D software to simulate resulting workflows from this practice change, comparing them against a traditional hospital setting. 

3 ways Vanderbilt's radiology department is laying the groundwork to address health disparities

"Regardless of design, developing a critical mass of institutions with this type of infrastructure will be needed for the field of radiology to improve health equity," experts wrote in JACR.

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Noted radiologist urges specialty's return to days of communal eating during meal breaks

In medicine, the once-bustling break room has become a smaller, quieter, more sterile place, Richard Gunderman, MD, wrote recently. 

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Lynda Carter, TV’s original Wonder Woman, offers lessons learned for the field of radiology

The specialty needs more female role models like the famed superhero, who became a feminist icon in the 1970s, Carter wrote in JACR

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Hospital sees success deploying radiology trainees as at-home ‘teleresidents’

"Given concern over new variants, we believe that the home workstation program may continue to have a place in radiology training,” experts wrote.

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RSNA21: COVID-19 has exacerbated isolation in radiology, but offers clear paths to broaden its reach

Mary Mahoney, MD, explored these themes during her presidential address at RSNA's annual meeting. 

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Parental leave policies more prevalent in radiology departments chaired by women

Female representation in such positions remains low, according to new research published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.