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.

Radiologists are receiving salary offers averaging $455,000 to start a new job in 2022, up from $401,000 in 2021.  

Radiologist starting salaries up 13.5% over last year

Radiologists are receiving salary offers averaging $455,000 to start a new job in 2022, up from $401,000 in 2021.  

July 19, 2022

Where money is tight, screening mammography is conditionally cost-effective compared with other proactive options

In countries with low to middling gross national incomes, screening mammography appears to be a cost-effective means of minimizing breast cancer’s economic costs and public-health burdens at the population level. However …

July 19, 2022
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True or false? ‘AI does not influence radiologists’ performance’

A healthcare AI startup in Silicon Valley is partnering with a top-tier medical school—and hopefully a few good radiologists—to test a hypothesis that’s increasingly crucial to radiology.

July 19, 2022

3D mammography may shake ‘routine’ out of architectural distortion surgery

When counseling patients with architectural distortion on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) but no signs of malignancy on biopsy, mammographers should raise imaging alone as a sound option for surveillance.

July 15, 2022
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‘AJR’ enjoys substantial increase in impact factor

Another of the top peer-reviewed journals serving radiology is experiencing a time of peak influence.

July 13, 2022
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7 points of light for new radiologists weighing subspecialist vs. generalist paths

To subspecialize or not to subspecialize? That’s a crucial question for radiology trainees who are finishing their residency but have yet to settle on a lifelong career path.

July 13, 2022
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FDA gives nod to MRI acceleration software equipped with AI

A medical imaging OEM has been cleared to market MRI image reconstruction software that, according to the company, sacrifices nothing in image quality despite allowing patients to be scanned up to three times faster than conventional methods. 

July 12, 2022
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CT contrast shortage seen as amplification, continuation of deep-set dynamics

The shortage of iodinated contrast media that has rattled U.S. radiology since early May didn’t come from nowhere.

July 8, 2022

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"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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