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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Radiology job market update. More than two years after the onset of the pandemic, changes in COVID-related policies and postures — as well as accompanying cultural shifts in the workplace — continue to drive trends in the job market for radiologists. In 2022, things look markedly different than during the early stages of the pandemic and it’s clear that radiologist job seekers now have many options and greater workplace flexibility.

Fewer than 1 in 6 radiologists are highly likely to seek new employment in the near future

Most practices surveyed said they hired radiologists in 2021 with similar plans in 2022, focused on breast and body imaging as top needs. 

October 10, 2023
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), a related organization of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), this week released a statement on the criminalization of medical errors. The APSF said criminal prosecution is unjust and counterproductive is healthcare organizations want to find ways to mitigate errors by understanding how they happen and create protocols or IT systems can can help prevent future errors. The criminal trial of nurse RaDonda Vaught was counterproductive to safety.

Physician burnout in the US is rising, presenting ‘potential threat’ to healthcare system, study asserts

That's according to three surveys of a multispecialty group of physicians (including radiologists), conducted during a five-year period.

October 9, 2023
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ACR, coalition of nearly 50 provider groups urge Congress to quash controversial code update

According to CMS estimates, the code would be responsible for 90% of the overall budget neutrality reduction tied to the conversion factor, advocates noted. 

October 9, 2023
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The 6 factors that most commonly fuel breast radiologists’ desire to leave a job

"The survey created here can be administered by radiology practices to predict when breast radiologists are vulnerable to quitting,” researchers detailed in JACR. 

October 9, 2023
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What stakeholders are saying about the largest healthcare strike in history

Many healthcare watchers were taken by surprise when upwards of 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers went on strike last week.

October 9, 2023
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Clinical decision support has little impact on image-ordering behaviors, single-center study finds

CDS only added 24 seconds to ordering clinicians' workflows and rarely led to these individuals changing their radiology request, experts wrote in JACR. 

October 6, 2023

Radiology impacted by tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente health workers on strike

The picket includes nearly 75,000 individuals, among them, ultrasound sonographers, radiologic technologists, home health aides and licensed vocational nurses. 

October 6, 2023
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Hospital trio learns cybersecurity lessons the hard way

How quickly a hospital recovers from a ransomware cyberattack has a lot to do with how thoroughly the hospital prepared ahead of time for just such an event.

October 5, 2023
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