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.

Hospital finance, Despite improving margins, hospitals face a long road to recovery from the COVID pandemic

‘We can do better’: Practices leaving money on the table, 2023 RBMA Accounts Receivable Survey shows

"To be brutally honest, even some of the 75th percentile numbers aren’t that great," Kyle Tucker, a member of RBMA’s Data Committee, told Radiology Business

May 16, 2023
Everlight Radiology CEO Rob Anderson

Private equity-backed global teleradiology outfit opens ‘state of the art’ new reporting hub

Midmarket private equity firm Livingbridge acquired Everlight Radiology in 2021 for more than $335 million and hopes to fuel growth with the new facility.

May 15, 2023
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Radiology provider Envision Healthcare officially files for bankruptcy, hoping to cancel $5.6B in debt

The private equity-backed multispecialty group said that it has voluntarily entered into an agreement to restructure 60% of its obligations. 

May 15, 2023
Andrew Litt

Radiology Partners announces changes in its board room

William Brody, MD, is stepping down from the practice's governing body, with a notable name serving as his replacement. 

May 12, 2023

ACR Council passes resolution advocating for the protection of radiologists in states that ban abortion

“I am delighted by the overwhelming support Resolution #11 received at the ACR meeting," one of its supporters told Radiology Business

May 12, 2023
American College of Radiology 2023 Annual Meeting

William Herrington elected ACR president, plus more news from the college’s 2023 annual meeting

Ezequiel Silva, MD, received the 2023 William T. Thorwarth Jr. Award, with several others recognized for their accomplishments.  

May 11, 2023
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Industry payments to radiologists dropped precipitously post COVID, with an uneven recovery since

“Interestingly,” experts noted, despite such decreases, average payment amounts nearly tripled year-over-year, from $581 to $1,607 in 2020.

May 4, 2023

Radiologists propose resolution to protect specialty from prosecution in states that ban abortion

Twenty-five state societies have voiced their support for the proposal, being presented at the 2023 ACR Annual Meeting in D.C. 

May 4, 2023

Around the web

"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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