Hospital/physician relations
As hospitals work to figure out how to reduce unplanned 30-day readmissions, a new analysis examines what some hospitals are doing.
In a new U.S. Employment Outlook report published by Simply Hired, authors say that the healthcare industry led among all other employment industries in the number of job openings available in September.
The state of Washington finds itself in the middle of a trend that hardly anyone there ever saw coming: a wave of mergers and alliances between Catholic hospital chains and secular, taxpayer-supported community hospitals.
If you're trying to beef up the value of a medical practice in advance of selling it, don't bother upgrading your electronic health record system.
The median total compensation of physician executives increased 7 percent to $325,000 in 2013 from $305,000 two years ago, keeping pace with the salary growth rate in 2011, according to a survey from Cejka Executive Search.
A new healthcare environment where value is more important that volume requires a business model that incentivizes all providers on the care-delivery continuum to delivery higher value care.
Due to its substantial impact on a hospital’s bottom line, Tony Stajduhar, president of the Permanent Physician Recruitment Division at recruitment firm Jackson & Coker, believes physician recruitment should always be a top-five concern for hospital administrators -- something that he says is not always the case.
With the turbulence of healthcare reform has come an increase in the prevalence of severance agreements in contracts between healthcare organizations and CEOs found the 2013 Health Care CEO Severance Survey.
Recent research indicates that primary care physicians who participated in a quality-reporting incentive program saw patients make "greater improvements" in cardiovascular disease preventive care than the patients of fee-for-service providers.
Healthcare reform and improving employee retention rates are top concerns of healthcare executives and human resources professionals.