Hospital/physician relations

Even necessary distractions from treating patients, which happen as often as 10 times every hour, trigger stress for doctors and nurses alike.

In order to change the way care is delivered, an individual outfit needs to have a sufficient percentage of its practice in a value-based world. That balance can be tricky but hospitals won't succeed without it.

The survey affirmed that interoperable networks are critically important when it comes to giving healthcare providers access to actionable data within the EHR.

New survey, based on answers from nearly 600 young physicians, provides insight into how millennials find their first positions, what they want in a job and why they change jobs.

The charter calls for institutional changes to work schedules, personnel policies, counseling and wellness programs.

Since hospital-employed doctors tend to perform services in an outpatient setting, the trend increases costs for Medicare and patients.

The salary difference between men and women newly-trained as doctors reached its widest divide to date at $27,214 -- and that's up from 2005 when it was $9,637.

The best population health management program is built on data and supported by robust operations that can scale up to meet the organization's needs.

Innovation Care Partners built a dashboard to engage physicians and offers them financial incentives to use the tool. The combination has already resulted in lower readmissions.

Weingart Foundation also gave $7.5 million. The South Los Angeles' medical group will use the $15 million to help eliminate the physician shortage problem, which it estimates to be about 1,200 primary care and specialty doctors too few in the area.