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.

GE has completed the spinoff of its healthcare business, and GE HealthCare began trading as its own entity on the Nasdaq Jan. 4. Stock Market

GE HealthCare stands on its own

GE has completed the spinoff of its healthcare business, and GE HealthCare began trading as its own entity on the Nasdaq Jan. 4.

January 4, 2023

GAO appoints 7 new members to health IT advisory committee

Seven members have been added to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC), a group tasked with improving the quality and access of health IT by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

 

December 22, 2022

MetroHealth loses another executive

The news follows the departure of MetroHealth’s CEO, who was fired by the board of trustees after it was discovered he had been giving himself unauthorized bonuses totaling $1.9 million.

December 22, 2022
Diagnostic imaging radiology and the emergency room direction signs at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in the Chicago western suburbs.

Why hospitals suffered financially in 2022—and a look ahead to 2023

Health Exec caught up with Erik Swanson, senior vice president of data and analytics at Kaufman Hall, to learn more about the underlying trends throughout 2022 and what hospitals are bracing for in 2023.

December 20, 2022
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Biden’s winter preparedness plan includes more free COVID-19 tests

The Biden administration plans to make more free, at-home COVID-19 tests available to Americans as part of its newly announced winter preparedness plan.

December 16, 2022

NCI director announces breast cancer diagnosis

The director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, revealed her breast cancer diagnosis on Dec. 14.

December 15, 2022
Andrei Churyla, MD, Douglas Johnston, MD, and R. Kannan Mutharasan, MD, tour a clinic room designed for future AI technology pilots at Palos Hospital.

Northwestern Medicine opens advanced outpatient cardiac clinic at suburban Chicago

Northwestern Medicine opens a new outpatient cardiology clinic to address better patient access to care in Chicago's south suburbs. 

December 14, 2022
Baligh R. Yehia, MD, has been named the new president of Jefferson Health, a nonprofit health system based in Philadelphia. He will assume the role Jan. 17, 2023. Yehia joins Jefferson Health from Ascension, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems.

Movers & Shakers: Jefferson Health, Genesis Health, Roche Pharma announce leadership changes

Welcome to Movers & Shakers, a roundup of the latest executive movements in the healthcare industry, featuring executive leadership changes at Jefferson Health, Genesis Health System and Roche Pharmaceuticals.

December 14, 2022

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This week Washington took a major step toward nailing down a solid game plan on federal AI spending for everything outside of defense.

The recall includes specific lots of five different medical devices used to treat stroke and other neurovascular diseases.

The agency is urging healthcare providers to transition away from these devices and seek out alternatives. It is even working with other manufacturers to try and get similar products on the market as quickly as possible. 

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