Rodney J. Moore

Nonprofit healthcare network becomes the first hospital to offset all of its fossil fuel use with locally produced, green energy.

As more new patients come into the healthcare system, savvy providers are seeing opportunities to develop better relationships with the hope that it will translate to greater bill collection success.

Opportunities still exist within the healthcare supply chain for improvement and greater efficiency of operations. Lately, price alignment strategies appear to be at the forefront as the newest hope for cost containment.

As cost control initiatives take on increasing weight at hospitals and health systems, organizations must focus more intently on stemming the costs of medical device procurement.

The ideal prescription for hospitals wanting to reduce their pharmaceutical costs could be tighter controls and staying on top of shortages.

While the ultimate goal of zero patient harm in hospitals has been largely elusive, there could be hope for progress by adapting lessons from high-risk industries.

Clinical trials are important to the development of new drugs, medical devices and procedures, but budgets for these trials are under increasing pressure.

Even as studies from the Obesity journal to the Journal of Applied Physiology have shown that sitting is bad for your health, many employers -- even healthcare-related ones -- balk at the costs of non-traditional office furniture like treadmill desks.

As hospital construction has held steady during the downturn, more administrators and healthcare leaders are weighing the benefits of patient-centered design.

From the federal government to Wal-Mart, companies are pledging to hire military veterans, and whether signing on to national campaigns or starting their own, healthcare companies are joining the cause.