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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Survey spurred by ‘general need for more public transparency’ sheds light on editorial leadership at imaging journals

At scientific journals focused on medical imaging, 82% of editors-in-chief and 30% of editorial board members receive financial compensation for these side jobs.

October 16, 2022
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Burnout-busting partnership said to signal ‘a major shift in how physicians will be supported in the future’

A telehealth practice active in all 50 states has hired a similarly sprawling behavioral-health consultancy to provide physicians with pro-wellbeing, anti-burnout counseling and related services.

October 13, 2022
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Nearly 90 latent safety threats identified, addressed before 2 new imaging suites see first patient

When conducted inside imaging suites soon to open, simulation exercises can help identify potentially serious threats to patient safety that may not have been carefully considered when the spaces were designed.

October 12, 2022
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Need grows for rural rads who can perform 12 low-risk, low-complexity interventional procedures

Most if not all diagnostic radiologists should be capable of performing numerous image-guided procedures, according to a task force jointly convened by the American College of Radiology and the Society of Interventional Radiology.

October 11, 2022
The Federal Aviation Administration assesses pilots for five “hazardous attitudes” that may forewarn of risky behaviors in the air. Therapeutic radiology researchers have adapted the FAA scale for radiation oncologists making treatment decisions. Marilyn Fornell

Radiation oncology relatively low in ‘hazardous attitudes,’ although ‘macho’ makes the radar

The Federal Aviation Administration assesses pilots for five “hazardous attitudes” that may forewarn of risky behaviors in the air. Therapeutic radiology researchers have adapted the FAA scale for radiation oncologists making treatment decisions.

October 2, 2022
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Go-anywhere imaging devices dispatched to Kenya

Butterfly Network has sent 500 of its iQ+ handheld ultrasound devices to Kenya as part of a charitable effort to improve outcomes for, primarily, mothers-to-be and their babies in Sub-Saharan Africa.

September 21, 2022
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Outreach team builds system to head off screening cancellations

Expanding available hours on top of calling with reminders did the equity-focused job with encouraging effectiveness.   

September 16, 2022
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2 imaging orgs to spread ultrasound access around the world and over the long haul

Something like 50 million people in 10 parts of the developing world stand to experience a bounce in quality of healthcare in coming years thanks to a major new aid project co-led by two large nonprofits with expertise in medical imaging.

September 14, 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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