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.

Julius Bogdan, vice president and general manager of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Digital Health Advisory Team for North America, explains considerations for healthcare system information technology (IT) management teams on the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI). He also discusses ideally how AI should be integrated into medical IT systems, and some of the issues AI presents in the complex environment of real-world patient care." #AI #HIMSS

Radiologist examines AI's potential to transform medical imaging

Linda Moy, MD, the first female editor of Radiology, said that artificial intelligence can help address a multitude of issues today’s radiologists face, but obstacles do remain. 

November 28, 2022

Canadian radiologists push federal lawmakers to deal with ‘devastating impact’ of long waits for medical imaging

Radiologists from across Canada descended on Parliament Hill in Ottawa earlier this month to voice pressing concerns on behalf of medical-imaging patients and professionals.

November 22, 2022
Bruce Haffty, MD, president of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors, chair of radiation oncology, associate vice chancellor for cancer programs at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and system director of radiation oncology at RWJBarnabas Health, discusses the president’s address "Diagnostic Imaging: Value From the Lens of the Patient," with Radiology Business. Haffty will present his opening session at RSNA 2022 at 4 p.m., Nov. 27, 2022, in the Arie Crown theater.  

VIDEO: RSNA President Bruce Haffty previews the big conference in Chicago

Haffty offered his perspective on the conference as a whole and previewed his presidential address, which is scheduled for early Sunday evening.

November 22, 2022

VIDEO: Meet the radiologist who’s in the hunt for NFL Fan of the Year

Breast-imaging specialist Amy Patel, MD, has already been named Fan No. 1 by her hometown Kansas City Chiefs. Now she’s up against national championship finalists from the NFL’s 31 other teams.

November 17, 2022
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3 organizations support 8 ascendant researchers

The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), Strategic Radiology and Bracco Diagnostics have separately elevated early- and mid-career radiologists to heightened educational opportunities.

November 10, 2022
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Too much medical imaging, too little time to fix what’s broken?

A leading U.K. radiologist tells what he saw as this challenging scenario snowballed into being and what he believes must be done to make matters more manageable.

November 3, 2022

Final 2023 physician fee schedule out from CMS; early reactions register exasperation, resolve

CMS has finalized the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for 2023, and its reimbursement reductions for radiology are less harsh than those proposed preliminarily in July.

November 3, 2022
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14 House members—7 Democrat, 7 Republican—press CMS to step up its game on CCTA

A bipartisan group in the U.S. House is asking CMS to acknowledge the cost-effectiveness of coronary CT angiography by comprehensively covering the exam for patients who present with acute but stable chest pain or other early signs of arterial plaque buildup.

October 30, 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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