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 residents and fellows unionize in ‘landslide’ election

Physicians at Chicago-based McGaw Medical Center are working over 80 hours per week while collecting inadequate compensation, organizers said.

January 30, 2024
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Lower shift volumes lead to significantly fewer errors for neuroradiologists

When case volumes climb to 67-90 studies, error rates were 226% higher than those tackling 19 or fewer cases during their shift, experts reported. 

January 29, 2024
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American College of Cardiology announces late-breaking research for ACC.24 in Atlanta

The group's annual meeting heads to Atlanta this April. TAVR, GLP-1 agonists, medical imaging guidance and blood pressure control are just some of the topics that will be presented during late-breaking sessions.

January 29, 2024
Jennifer C. Romano, MD, MS, is elected president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Image from STS 2024 courtesy of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Congenital heart specialist named first female president of Society of Thoracic Surgeons

STS announced the news Monday at its annual meeting in San Antonio. Jennifer C. Romano, MD, MS, is officially the first female president in the organization's 60-year history.

January 29, 2024
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S&P plans to reclassify Radiology Partners’ debt as ‘distressed’

The agency downgraded certain notes to “CC,” indicating the obligations are “highly vulnerable” to nonpayment, with default “expected to be a virtual certainty.”

January 29, 2024
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Radiology community mourns the loss of Bruce Hillman, MD

The Journal of the American College of Radiology founding editor and former University of Virginia radiology chair died on Jan. 9 at the age of 76. 

January 26, 2024
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Bankruptcy bug kept biting healthcare in 2023

Healthcare saw an alarming spike in Chapter 11 filings last year, lengthening a trajectory that started taking shape in mid-2022.

January 26, 2024
CroíValve DUO device tricuspid valve. The DUO Tricuspid Coaptation Valve System includes both a prosthetic coaptation valve that works in tandem with the patient’s native tricuspid valve and an anchor system designed to adjust and lock the position of the coaptation valve as needed. According to CroíValve, the device “combines repair and replacement to provide the right solution for the right heart.”

CroíValve kicks off early feasibility study for new TR device, names cardiologist Martin Leon to advisory board

The company hopes to enroll 15 patients to monitor the safety and effectiveness of its new-look transcatheter device for severe tricuspid regurgitation. 

January 25, 2024