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.

Overheard around the Kaiser nurses’ protest over AI in healthcare
Healthcare leaders around the U.S. might want to take notice of what’s going on in the streets of San Francisco this week.
Industry Watcher’s Digest
Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.
Generative AI: Who’s disrupting whom?
Given the speed at which generative AI has penetrated every major sector of human endeavor, no expert in any field should pretend to know how to cleanly separate the disruptors from the disrupted.
In the House, a new bipartisan push to get arms around AI
The move will bring together 24 representatives—12 from each party—who will work to stimulate American AI innovation while mitigating AI-related threats.
AI spots signs of rheumatic heart disease in echocardiograms as well as cardiologists
Researchers think this represents a potential breakthrough for low- and middle-income countries where access to high-quality imaging evaluations is still limited.

Radiologists exhorted to take charge of change (or learn to live with receding relevance)

The unfolding scenario is packing some serious threats to the livelihoods of the unprepared.

December 21, 2022

NCI director Norman Sharpless named new FDA acting commissioner

Norman E. Sharpless, MD, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) since October 2017, has been announced as the new acting commissioner of the FDA. Sharpless replaces Scott Gottlieb, MD, who unexpectedly resigned from the position on March 5.

March 13, 2019

CHIME announces new appointments to leadership positions

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has announced the newest appointments to its board of trustees, board of directors and elected officers for 2018.

September 14, 2016

Craig Richardville Named CHIME-HIMSS 2015 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year

Recognizing that healthcare providers need to transition from sick care to well care, Carolinas HealthCare System has been aggressively pursuing a technology strategy that powers more effective patient engagement, virtual care delivery and interoperability amongst providers in the Carolinas.

December 10, 2015

Carolinas CIO named CHIME/HIMSS CIO of the Year

Craig D. Richardville, MBA, FACHE, FHIMSS, senior vice president and CIO at Carolinas HealthCare System, has been named the 2015 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year.

December 9, 2015

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Leadership

Overheard around the Kaiser nurses’ protest over AI in healthcare

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Generative AI: Who’s disrupting whom?

In the House, a new bipartisan push to get arms around AI

AI spots signs of rheumatic heart disease in echocardiograms as well as cardiologists

Around the web