Hospital/physician relations
CareerCast, a Carlsbad, California-based online jobs database, released its top 10 jobs in the healthcare field Thursday, highlighting careers in the industry that have the highest growth potential over the next eight years.
The timeworn image of the number-crunching hospital CFO, toiling behind the scenes, has transformed over the past several years into that of a key management figure, deeply entrenched in daily operations and strategic planning.
Consumerism in healthcare is changing the industry, as patients are paying far closer attention to the costs of medical care than in the past. This change will likely shape the top 10 issues faced by providers in 2015, claims a new report by the PwC Health Research Institute.
For healthcare financial executives, the integration of a new operation carries many challenges. And not the least is the question of how to compensate physicians who are joining the organization.
Accountable care organizations can be risky business. ACO care partners must be able to depend on one another for proper patient handling, data flow, clinical cooperation, revenue sharing and other agreed-upon measures.
The third largest U.S. retail company is partnering with a well-known integrated delivery system to evolve the primary care walk-in clinic, in a confident bet on retail health.
DaVita HealthCare Partners, a provider of kidney dialysis services, is making a move into primary care, and has announced a joint venture with a hospital company in Colorado and Kansas. Some say the firm might be trying to create a model for Medicare to follow.
Care coordination networks are a mainstay of the Affordable Care Act's cost reduction goals. Accountable care organizations are the most widely recognized of these networks, yet by no means is design of these business arrangements simple or straightforward.
The Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, Maine, opened a new chapter in its almost 100-year history last month, when it became part of MaineHealth, the state's largest health system. Revenue declines forced the hospital to seek a strategic partner, the organization's CFO acknowledged.
Two health systems set to merge want to "reimagine" healthcare and bring it to the masses, and in a fairly crowded metropolitan area they need economies of scale.