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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Radiologists should consider unionizing to counter specialty’s corporate takeover, expert says

Taking this step would come with numerous obstacles, but it’s certainly worth weighing, argues professor and neuroradiologist Arvind Vijayasarathi, MD, MBA, MPH. 

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Noncompete clause fails to snuff radiology salesman’s jump to tech startup

VRad had sought an injunction to stop Michael Rabern from continuing his duties at Silicon Valley-based teleradiology company Nines Inc. 

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Nearly 90% of early career radiologists believe corporatization is harming the speciality

Another 83% said they’d prefer to work for an independent practice, rather than one owned by a corporation, researchers reported in March’s Journal of the American College of Radiology

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American Board of Radiology canceling exams in response to coronavirus outbreak

In particular, the doc-certification nonprofit said it’s canning both diagnostic radiology and radioisotope safety testing slated for April 6 in Tucson, Arizona.

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Radiologists want more positive feedback, emotional support following major errors

Making a serious mistake can be a crushing experience for physicians that’s only exacerbated if practices don’t have the right safety net in place, experts wrote March 2 in Academic Radiology

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Radiology podcasts growing in prevalence, first-ever study finds

That’s according to a comprehensive new analysis of the listening landscape, published Wednesday in Insights Into Imaging. 

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5 strategies to maintain radiology practice value in the face of increasing imaging volume

Numerous forces are combining to spike physicians' case loads, which could lead to low-quality care, errors and burnout. 

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Envision Healthcare names new CEO, says surprise billing inquiry didn’t influence change

The investor-owned company is one of the nation's largest multispecialty, facility-based physician groups, leading a team of more than 900 radiologists.