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.

Ascension nurses prepare to go on strike

As the largest nurses strike in Texas history looms, Ascension threatens to lock out participants

Nurses at three Ascension hospitals in Austin, Texas, and Wichita, Kansas, were initially prepared to participate in a one-day strike in protest of contract disputes.

June 20, 2023
GE has completed the spinoff of its healthcare business, and GE HealthCare began trading as its own entity on the Nasdaq Jan. 4. Stock Market

RadNet closes public stock offering after raising $259M or 48% more than original ask

The Los Angeles-based imaging center operator sold a total of 8,711,250 shares of its stock at $29.75 apiece. 

June 19, 2023
doors subspecialty specialize

Eyeing overutilization, health system schools fledgling internists in Imaging Wisely

Following the intervention, learners demonstrated improved and sustained knowledge about high-value image ordering, experts wrote in JACR

June 19, 2023

Hospital system joint venture will launch 1 of state’s largest new imaging facilities

The 22,632 square-foot center will include four wide-bore MRIs and upgraded PET and CT scanners, leaders announced recently. 

June 19, 2023

University of Chicago startup scores $1M to help commercialize interventional radiology product

Co-founded by radiologist Osmanuddin Ahmed, MD, Flow Medical is creating a first-of-its-kind product for treating pulmonary embolism. 

June 19, 2023
lung cancer pulmonary nodule chest

Black patients face 34% lower odds of completing lung cancer screening after a referral

The disparity persisted even when adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic factors, experts reported Friday in JAMA Network Open

June 16, 2023
layoffs staff cuts termination workforce

US Radiology Specialists expanding its pipeline for attracting and retaining technologists

Private equity-backed USRS plans to extend the reach of its Technologist Advancement Academy across all 180 of its imaging centers.  

June 14, 2023
AI artificial intelligence stethoscope doctor

American Medical Association to advise on the use of AI in medicine

The goal is to inform users on how to best utilize AI tools while also practicing caution, as many are still in their early stages of deployment and can pose risks. 

June 13, 2023