The Senate confirmed Robert McDonald to head the Department of Veterans Affairs last week, just after congressional leaders put together a $17 billion funding bill to help reform the agency. 

He may have been preaching to the choir, but surgeon and thought leader Atul Gawande, MD, told a crowd at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas that data and leadership from healthcare finance experts will have the biggest impact on improving the value of healthcare.

Washington, D.C. – The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), today welcomed Kevin J. Cosgriff as NEMA’s next president and chief executive officer. 

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – (July 14, 2014) – Zotec Partners, LLC (Zotec), a leading provider of billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, is pleased to announce that it has hired esteemed industry veteran Mark Scruggs, as a partner of corporate strategy.

ACA has accelerated the rate of change in healthcare and payors are under the gun to make the transition from an industry in which the customer is a corporation to one in which consumers call the shots. Many current market leaders could be unseated, predicts a June report from McKinsey & Company.

Reston, Va. (June 5, 2014) – Harvey L. Neiman, MD, FACR, chief executive officer of the American College of Radiology (ACR), died tonight following a long illness. He was 71. Neiman was widely considered a medical visionary who dedicated his professional life to improving patient care.

Reston, VA – Bibb Allen, Jr., M.D., FACR, of Birmingham, AL, became the new chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Board of Chancellors during the recent ACR 91st Annual Meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. 

Just 5 percent of hospital leaders are physicians, not nearly enough for a successful transition to value-based care, according to a white paper from the American College of Physician Executives.