Hospital/physician relations

A hospital acquiring medical practices is not news. But hospitals having enough managers who can integrate and manage medical practices in a hospital-controlled environment is news.

Connecting CFOs and clinicians on population health initiatives involves understanding how each group's environment influences decision-making.

The state needs to create and fill 13,568 residency positions to fully resolve the physician shortage by 2025.

CEO Stephen Klasko pitches telehealth, clinic focus as he manages the merger between the top academic medical center and the suburban Abington Health hospital system.

The reason costs add up for these procedures could have more to do with doctors than patients, JAMA report finds.

When healthcare leaders do not clearly set direction, define performance expectations, create a patient focus and demonstrate clear and visible practice values and ethics, physicians and other employees are likely to invent their own ideas as to what needs to be done and how to accomplish it.

After Prime's CEO told local paper the health giant backed its takeover plans for Daughter's, Kaiser steps in to set the record straight.

But new area of business intelligence does not come without challenges.

Loose rules by the FDA allowing products that should receive closer scrutiny to slip by.

John Mackey also suggests weight loss and nutrition camps for employees and customers, marketed as a weekend retreats.