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.

Cardiologist blasts into space on Jeff Bezos-funded Blue Origin rocket
The nine-minute flight was a complete success. Prior Blue Origin space tourism missions have included everyone from Bezos himself to Star Trek actor William Shatner.
Reduce, reuse, recycle: How cath labs can lower cardiology’s colossal carbon footprint
Cath labs, like radiology suites and operating rooms, are leading contributors to the world’s growing carbon footprint.
ACR CEO discusses solution to fight burdensome prior authorizations in medical imaging
Dana Smetherman, MD, MBA, outlines a possible remedy for the growing number of these roadblocks in the specialty.
Cardiologist to chair new FDA advisory committee focused on AI, other digital health technologies
The Digital Health Advisory Committee is tasked with providing perspective and recommendations on a wide variety of topics. These insights will then help the FDA draft new policies and make other important decisions.
DOJ suing health system in alleged kickback scheme
Three years after a pair of former hospital C-suite executives blew the whistle on their own institution, the U.S. Department of Justice has acted on the complaint.

Most US adults with medical debt owe hospitals

A significant portion of U.S. adults have some past-due medical debt, according to a recent study from the Urban Institute, and the majority of those with debt owe non-profit hospitals.

March 15, 2023

Biden’s budget: Extend Medicare solvency through higher taxes on rich, more drug price changes

Biden says his proposals are an extension of what he has already accomplished to reduce the deficit and lower healthcare spending.

March 7, 2023

Audit confirms former MetroHealth CEO hid unauthorized bonuses

During his time as president and CEO, Akram Boutros, MD, circumvented rules to pay himself nearly $2 million in bonuses and hid the money from the board of trustees.

March 7, 2023

Academic envelope-pushers rev up biocomputing, OI and ‘intelligence in a dish’

Does the future of digital healthcare lie with biocomputers powered by engineered cultures derived from human brain cells? If so, it’s already underway in Baltimore.

March 2, 2023

MercyOne completes acquisition of Genesis

The deal was first announced in September 2022, and with its closure, all interests and operations of Genesis become part of MercyOne.

March 2, 2023

Heart failure specialist Sean Pinney named new chief of cardiology at Mount Sinai Morningside

The move represents a return of sorts for Pinney, who served Mount Sinai in a variety of leadership roles from 2004 to 2020.

March 1, 2023

Incoming 2023-2024 American College of Cardiology (ACC) president Hadley Wilson, MD, shares insights on how to create health equity through both ACC programs and hospital grassroots community outreach programs. He outlines four programs his heart hospital is piloting in its community in Charlotte, North Carolina.

How cardiologists can address health disparities in their communities

Incoming 2023-2024 American College of Cardiology president Hadley Wilson, MD, shared insights on how to create health equity through grassroots community outreach programs.

February 28, 2023

Hospital CEO turnover is on the rise

The number of CEO changes at U.S. companies rose 12% from December 2022 to January 2023, with hospital CEOs playing a key part in that trend.

February 28, 2023

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Cath lab techs and nurses see new normal with post-COVID pay

In the post-COVID era, wages for permanent RNs are rising, and wages for travelers are decreasing. A new report tracked these trends and more.

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Merit Medical to purchase Cook Medical’s lead management portfolio for $210M

Two medical device companies have announced a transaction that could shake up the U.S. electrophysiology market.

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Abiomed, Biosense Webster, Cerenovus now all known as Johnson & Johnson MedTech

These companies were already part of the Johnson & Johnson family, but they had still retained their previous brand names. Now, each one is officially going by Johnson & Johnson MedTech.

Leadership

Cardiologist blasts into space on Jeff Bezos-funded Blue Origin rocket

Reduce, reuse, recycle: How cath labs can lower cardiology’s colossal carbon footprint

ACR CEO discusses solution to fight burdensome prior authorizations in medical imaging

Cardiologist to chair new FDA advisory committee focused on AI, other digital health technologies

DOJ suing health system in alleged kickback scheme

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