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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Optimizing imaging sites of service could boost margins, amass thousands more in collections

An organization could add an additional $87,532 on one MRI machine or over $260,000 via CT each year through strategic site selection, experts estimated.

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Virtual radiology consultation services could add value—but are patients interested?

Patients appeared to show little interest in the offering, presenting an "important quandary" for the specialty, according to a new study. 

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Solis Mammography acquiring network of breast imaging centers

Supported by Chicago-based Madison Dearborn Capital Partners, the company has grown rapidly in recent years to now include 100-plus locations.

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Private equity-backed LucidHealth touts new 2-year partnership track for its growing teleradiology group

Since 2020, the “virtual practice” has grown to include more than 75 physicians operating across 47 states, with leaders seeking to hire more.

Beloved cardiologist Albert Waldo remembered for his lasting impact on electrophysiology

Waldo was a founding member of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology, which is now known as the Heart Rhythm Society, and was revered for his helpfulness and kindness.

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Radiologist dies from fall while hiking at Wisconsin state park

Jason Gillum, MD, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was hiking with another individual at Devil’s Lake State Park when the two became separated. 

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S&P downgrades radiology provider Akumin as it faces ‘significant headwinds’

Setbacks have included labor and supply chain challenges, delays in recognizing synergies from its merger with Alliance Healthcare Services and soft patient volumes. 

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Affiliate of private equity-backed US Radiology Specialists reaches in-network agreement with UnitedHealthcare

Tucson, Arizona-based Radiology Ltd. was set to see its contract with the nation's largest commercial health insurer expire on Aug. 15.