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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3 steps to eliminate unconscious bias in radiology recruitment and hiring

Radiology researchers recommend using a holistic approach to hiring and deploying structured interviewing, they wrote recently. 

May 3, 2021
Diversity

A blueprint to help confront racial and ethnic disparities in your radiology department

Massachusetts General recently detailed its experience creating a diversity, equity and inclusion committee in the Journal of the American College of Radiology

April 30, 2021
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7 fundraising tips for radiologists from a prolific moneymaker and former Johns Hopkins president

During his tenure, radiologist William Brody, MD, PhD, helped the Baltimore-based institution amass billions for its causes. 

April 29, 2021

Radiologists must play central role in improving the patient experience. Experts offer tips

There are numerous ways members of the specialty can go above and beyond to "wow" the healthcare consumer, ACR experts say. 

April 23, 2021
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), a related organization of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), this week released a statement on the criminalization of medical errors. The APSF said criminal prosecution is unjust and counterproductive is healthcare organizations want to find ways to mitigate errors by understanding how they happen and create protocols or IT systems can can help prevent future errors. The criminal trial of nurse RaDonda Vaught was counterproductive to safety.

Radiology practices must transform their wellness strategies to foster ‘post-traumatic growth’ after COVID

Imaging leaders must augment and transform their previous anti-burnout strategies, experts advised. 

April 15, 2021
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The COVID ‘black swan event’ and what radiology can learn from Time magazine’s pandemic pivot

Coronavirus was a "punch in the mouth" for the noted publication, but it has also offered lessons that apply in imaging, Time President Keith Grossman wrote in JACR.  

April 15, 2021

‘Long overdue’: Radiology groups urge ABR to allow 12 weeks of medical leave during residency

Doing so would establish the boards as a "trailblazer among medical specialties," dozens of docs wrote Tuesday in RSNA's Radiology

April 14, 2021
Money dollar investments

American Board of Radiology eyeing fee reductions in 2022, changing name of MOC program

On average, docs pay nearly $15K over the course of their career on certification, one of the highest tallies among specialties. 

April 12, 2021

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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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