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.

Radiology Business Announces Forty Under 40 Class of 2024
Radiology Business Forty Under 40 Class of 2024
Cardiologists reflect on developing primary PCI in face of criticism and pushback
SCAI celebrated cardiologists William W. O'Neill, MD, and Cindy L. Grines, MD, for the important roles they played in the development of primary PCI. “It was challenging,” Grines explained. “We had the pharmaceutical industry that was anti-primary angioplasty and we had a lot of our own colleagues that were anti-primary angioplasty."
Hospitals pilot policies to test older radiologists’ mental and physical fitness
About 5% of U.S. healthcare organizations have now implemented such competency testing, with about 13% of physicians deemed unfit for the job.
7 facts about RSNA 2024, which is less than 1 month away
The Radiological Society of North America’s 110th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting is set to begin on Dec. 1 in Chicago.
Radiology provider Envision Healthcare shakes up C-suite
The Nashville-based multispecialty provider's CFO and CIO are both departing in January, with Envision launching a search to replace the latter.

‘Learning analytics’ provides more comprehensive means to assess novice radiologists’ skills

Traditional approaches don’t allow for the collection of structured data to gauge progress, experts wrote in Academic Radiology.

June 21, 2023

‘Crisis on our hands’: Radiologists warn of ‘dangerously long’ wait times for imaging

Patients are waiting upward of nine months for biopsies, prompting concerns from the local radiological society.

June 21, 2023

Ascension nurses prepare to go on strike

As the largest nurses strike in Texas history looms, Ascension threatens to lock out participants

Nurses at three Ascension hospitals in Austin, Texas, and Wichita, Kansas, were initially prepared to participate in a one-day strike in protest of contract disputes.

June 20, 2023

RadNet closes public stock offering after raising $259M or 48% more than original ask

The Los Angeles-based imaging center operator sold a total of 8,711,250 shares of its stock at $29.75 apiece.

June 19, 2023

Eyeing overutilization, health system schools fledgling internists in Imaging Wisely

Following the intervention, learners demonstrated improved and sustained knowledge about high-value image ordering, experts wrote in JACR.

June 19, 2023

Hospital system joint venture will launch 1 of state’s largest new imaging facilities

The 22,632 square-foot center will include four wide-bore MRIs and upgraded PET and CT scanners, leaders announced recently.

June 19, 2023

University of Chicago startup scores $1M to help commercialize interventional radiology product

Co-founded by radiologist Osmanuddin Ahmed, MD, Flow Medical is creating a first-of-its-kind product for treating pulmonary embolism.

June 19, 2023

Black patients face 34% lower odds of completing lung cancer screening after a referral

The disparity persisted even when adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic factors, experts reported Friday in JAMA Network Open.

June 16, 2023

Leadership

Radiology Business Announces Forty Under 40 Class of 2024

Cardiologists reflect on developing primary PCI in face of criticism and pushback

Hospitals pilot policies to test older radiologists’ mental and physical fitness

7 facts about RSNA 2024, which is less than 1 month away

Radiology provider Envision Healthcare shakes up C-suite