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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Turning Good Ideas Into Outstanding Advancements: Winners of the 2019 Imaging Innovation Awards

Sponsored by Intelerad

This year’s competition brought out the best in a strong field. All entrants developed notably original breakthroughs in various aspects of medical imaging. And the winners never lost sight of the ultimate point of all the extra effort: improving patient care while increasing efficiencies and, wherever possible, cutting or at least containing costs. Now meet the best of the best. 

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American College of Radiology seeking innovators with ‘Champions of Imaging’ contest

ACR said the competition will allow imaging providers to highlight their use of the college’s 3.0 case studies to spark innovation in their own work.

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Heeding attendee requests, RSNA plans to shorten future versions of its annual meeting

Starting with the 2021 iteration, RSNA plans to discontinue any educational programming on the final Friday of the agenda, instead concluding at the end of the day Thursday. 

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Call to action for radiologists to sharpen their dementia caregiving skills: A six-step process

The silver tsunami of aging Americans will bring a corresponding wave of dementia diagnoses, one that radiology business leaders will need to be prepared for in the coming years. 

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Clinicians urged to celebrate International Day of Radiology Friday, Nov. 8

This year’s theme is sports imaging, with musculoskeletal radiology serving as one of the fastest growing subspecialties in diagnostic radiology. 

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Burnout reaching ‘crisis levels’ in some parts of the radiology staff, study finds

Polling more than 250 professionals, Phillips found that technologists in every geography reported significant levels of workplace fatigue, with more than one-third reporting moderate to high levels, according to “Radiology Staff in Focus,” released on Monday, Nov. 5. 

Med students consider radiology a ‘low status’ profession, are unaware of its scope of practice

That’s according to a new poll of almost 330 trainees, conducted at one United Kingdom medical school. 

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Trump administration selects radiation oncologist as new FDA chief

The White House announced on Friday, Nov. 1, that it’s nominating Stephen Hahn, MD, a trained radiation oncologist, as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.