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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How the radiology community can counter COVID-19’s outsized impact on female physicians

Challenges include navigating board exams while breastfeeding and assuming a greater share of childcare duties, experts wrote in Clinical Imaging. 

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Mednax continues its C-suite shake-up with chief financial officer’s ouster

The move comes a little more than a month after the Florida physician firm announced the retirement of longtime CEO Roger Medel, MD. 

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Less than half of radiologists review images ahead of multidisciplinary tumor board meetings

Barriers such as time and a lack of education credits are keeping imaging physicians from getting the full benefit of these meetings, experts reported in European Radiology. 

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LucidHealth selected as Iowa hospital system’s new radiology services provider after bidding process

MercyOne will utilize the Columbus, Ohio-based imaging company in its Northeast service area that includes two acute care hospitals and 40 clinics. 

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Half-century-old, 46-physician imaging practice in North Carolina joins Strategic Radiology

Triad Radiology Associates operates in the Winston-Salem market and has long-running relationships with the Novant Health hospital system. 

COVID Healthcare Workers

‘We’re terrified’: Report claims undercounting of healthcare worker deaths, noting rad tech’s recent passing

Inconsistent reporting by physicians and coroners, along with the exclusion of nonmedical pros such as shuttle drivers, meal delivery or custodial workers, are part of the problem. 

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Radiologist urges peers to carefully monitor ‘digital footprint,’ sleep on it before posting

The advice comes after a controversial recent incident on Facebook in which someone shared CT scans of a foreign body lodged in one patient's rectum. 

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American College of Radiology urges physicians to ‘mask up,’ fight COVID-19 misinformation

ACR joins the American Medical Association, which first launched the campaign last week as a means to “normalize” face coverings and “debunk myths.”