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.

Incoming 2023-2024 American College of Cardiology (ACC) president Hadley Wilson, MD, shares insights on how to create health equity through both ACC programs and hospital grassroots community outreach programs. He outlines four programs his heart hospital is piloting in its community in Charlotte, North Carolina.

How cardiologists can address health disparities in their communities

Incoming 2023-2024 American College of Cardiology president Hadley Wilson, MD, shared insights on how to create health equity through grassroots community outreach programs.

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Hospital CEO turnover is on the rise

The number of CEO changes at U.S. companies rose 12% from December 2022 to January 2023, with hospital CEOs playing a key part in that trend. 

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Radiologists contend that state abortion bans will intensify struggle to fill physician jobs

"Recruiters have their hands full,” Sarah Thomas, MD, with the Department of Radiology at Duke University Medical School, and colleagues wrote recently. 

New ransomware threat with ties to Russia targets healthcare providers

The "prolific" ransomware group Clop is associated with Russia and has managed to breach some major healthcare systems.

Closing the loop and settling rare clinical disagreements between radiologists at the same institution

Oftentimes, these deviations can occur informally, but experts believe careful documentation is needed to resolve them in a timely fashion.

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Cigna stops former executive from joining CVS Health

Cigna has blocked CVS Health from hiring Amy Bricker, a former Cigna executive, after a federal judge granted the company a temporary injunction.

 

Women editors of radiology journals: ‘Not a curiosity but a fact’

Women now fill the top editorial spots at 10 peer-reviewed radiology journals. Just like that, a new set of gatekeepers is shaping the conversation around scientific inquiry and discovery across much of medical imaging.

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New ACC/AHA/SCAI guidance highlights training requirements for interventional cardiologists

The document, which was designed to help guide both interventional cardiology trainees and program directors, was also endorsed by several other industry societies.