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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Low levels of ‘organizational readiness’ could be holding back lung cancer screening programs

Willingness to change among radiologists and staff members (rather than leadership) has the biggest impact on lung cancer screening success, public health researchers reported Monday. 

Adopting paid family and medical leave in radiology: 7 considerations

“Paid FML is increasingly being recognized as an important issue in medicine," radiologists wrote recently in AJR

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One-fourth of practices say operating costs are up, with 93% facing clinical staffing shortages

Another 80% of physicians believe such challenges are worse than they were in 2022, according to survey data from ASTRO. 

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Key factors associated with fraud in medical imaging research

The scientific community should reexamine its current academic award system, which may be incentivizing junior faculty to commit fraud, according to new research.

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For-profit hospital giant HCA Healthcare touts joint venture with Envision Radiology

Clear Connect Medical Imaging will offer state-of-the-art technology, private dressing rooms and other modern amenities

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Rad Partners touts ‘dramatic’ MRI time reductions; Strategic Radiology adds practice, plus more company news

Also, radiologist joins state medical society representing small groups, and three LucidHealth rads honored as "top docs." 

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‘We can do better’: Practices leaving money on the table, 2023 RBMA Accounts Receivable Survey shows

"To be brutally honest, even some of the 75th percentile numbers aren’t that great," Kyle Tucker, a member of RBMA’s Data Committee, told Radiology Business

Everlight Radiology CEO Rob Anderson

Private equity-backed global teleradiology outfit opens ‘state of the art’ new reporting hub

Midmarket private equity firm Livingbridge acquired Everlight Radiology in 2021 for more than $335 million and hopes to fuel growth with the new facility.