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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New MRI technique a ‘virtual biopsy’ for surveilling transplanted hearts

Researchers have developed a novel cardiovascular MRI protocol as an option to the invasive gold standard, endomyocardial biopsy, for monitoring heart-transplant patients at risk of suffering organ rejection.

May 31, 2022
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Some 78% of parents OK with AI reading their child’s chest X-rays

The reception was similarly warm among parents toward AI used to assess a child’s need for antibiotics or bloodwork.

May 27, 2022

AI inspects endotracheal tube placement on chest X-rays

Radiology researchers have demonstrated the reliability of an AI system they developed to automatically check placement of endotracheal tubes on chest X-rays.

May 27, 2022
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PET/CT contrast debate: ‘Time to unleash the full power’ vs. ‘More is not always better’

Hybrid PET/CT enhanced with intravenous CT contrast deserves wider acceptance and adoption, as diagnostically optimized CT can complement PET—and vice versa—for a variety of potential indications. That’s one opinion on the matter.

May 26, 2022

Mammography AI intercepts density overestimations

Researchers have demonstrated a deep learning model that can correct course for breast radiologists who otherwise may have erroneously deemed tissue dense in screening exams.

May 24, 2022
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FDA posts guidance on managing risk of drug shortages

The Food & Drug Administration has drafted guidelines to help U.S. healthcare better prepare for and respond to events associated with these situations.

May 24, 2022
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9 ways to lift clinician completion of radiologist recommendations

A multidisciplinary panel convened by the ACR has developed a set of quality measures aimed at boosting rates of appropriate follow-up care for patients with noncritical but actionable incidental findings.

May 23, 2022
Researcher considers greater role of AB-MRI for patients with personal history of breast cancer

10 clues suggest scope, shape of AI’s future in mammography

Computer-aided detection boosted by AI has often proven superior to traditional CAD over the past decade, yet the “new way” has been slow to win broad adoption.

May 21, 2022

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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