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.

Half of cancer patients ignorant about imaging, and it’s causing them depression, anxiety and stress
Such “scanxiety” can have a detrimental effect on exam quality, delay care and necessitate additional imaging, experts write in the Journal of Radiology Nursing.
Cardiovascular Business announces its Forty Under 40 Class of 2025
Cardiovascular Business is thrilled to unveil the Forty Under 40 Class of 2025.
We asked readers to nominate individuals who are already making a major impact on the world of cardiovascular health at a young age. We wanted to hear about your best, your brightest, your most radical thinkers; the people who are never satisfied by something being “good enough” or “how it’s always been done.”
UCLA names new radiology chair, plus more leadership moves from SimonMed, GE HealthCare and Siemens Healthineers
Jonathan Goldin, MD, PhD, is the California institution's first new imaging chief in 20 years, replacing noted radiologist Dieter Enzmann, MD, who is stepping down.
Why surgery, not TAVR, remains the best treatment for some AS patients
TAVR is being used in more patients to treat severe aortic stenosis. However, according to a new commentary piece, SAVR is still the smartest treatment option for certain populations, including younger patients with bicuspid aortic valves.
Over 45% of radiologists and other docs are burned out, down from the 2021 peak
Despite the improvement, physicians remain at greater risk for such workplace fatigue when compared to other professions, the AMA reports.

GE HealthCare hires former Amazon, FDA exec to oversee science and technology operations

A med-tech leader of note is taking skills refined at Amazon, the FDA and the CDC to GE HealthCare, where he will serve as the newly independent company’s first CTO.

Health tech experts view Amazon as a major threat

Amazon is viewed as the biggest threat to health systems’ core business in 2023, according to more than half of health tech experts who were recently surveyed.

Hospital margins saw minor improvements at end of 2022

Hospitals faced tough operating conditions in 2022, with many dealing with negative margins and billions of dollars in losses. However, margins saw a slight improvement just before the end of the year, according to the latest National Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall.

GE HealthCare stands on its own

GE has completed the spinoff of its healthcare business, and GE HealthCare began trading as its own entity on the Nasdaq Jan. 4.

GAO appoints 7 new members to health IT advisory committee

Seven members have been added to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC), a group tasked with improving the quality and access of health IT by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Healthcare leaders react to $1.7T government funding bill

Healthcare stakeholders throughout U.S. medicine, including radiology leaders, aren’t waiting for the ink to dry before speaking their minds.

MetroHealth loses another executive

The news follows the departure of MetroHealth’s CEO, who was fired by the board of trustees after it was discovered he had been giving himself unauthorized bonuses totaling $1.9 million.

Radiologists exhorted to take charge of change (or learn to live with receding relevance)

The unfolding scenario is packing some serious threats to the livelihoods of the unprepared.

Leadership

Half of cancer patients ignorant about imaging, and it’s causing them depression, anxiety and stress

Cardiovascular Business announces its Forty Under 40 Class of 2025

UCLA names new radiology chair, plus more leadership moves from SimonMed, GE HealthCare and Siemens Healthineers

Why surgery, not TAVR, remains the best treatment for some AS patients

Over 45% of radiologists and other docs are burned out, down from the 2021 peak