Stephanie Bouchard
In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine's largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. The health system's leadership has determined $15 million needs to be saved to breakeven by year's end.
Healthcare workers are burned out -- so much so that more than a third of them say they plan to look for a new job this year, according to a new survey from CareerBuilder.
A new report from the Brookings Institution offers a framework for person-centered care that provides sustainable lowered costs and promotes higher quality care.
A complex conditions project in Maine has found that behavioral health disorders have as much impact on medical costs as having three chronic medical conditions and that fragmentation of care leads to higher overall costs.
The national plan to tackle Alzheimer's disease made strides in its first year but has much more ground to cover said witnesses testifying during a hearing Wednesday before the U.S. Senate's Special Committee on Aging.
In "Perfecting Patient Journeys" ($70, Lean Enterprise Institute), authors Judy Worth, Tom Shuker, Beau Keyte, Karl Ohaus, Jim Luckman, David Verble, Kirk Paluska and Todd Nickel offer a how-to guide for using lean management to make progress toward improving service delivery and costs. Beau Keyte and Jim Luckman talked to Healthcare Finance News about the book.
Supporters of a proposed rule to change the companion exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act pressured the Obama administration last week to make a final ruling.
Bundled care is touted frequently these days as one of the best ways in healthcare to save money, right reimbursement wrongs and heighten the quality of care. While the model is still being debated within the industry, a recent report indicates that consumers like it.
Many sectors of the healthcare industry have adopted or are adopting electronic health records, but the behavioral health sector has been slow to bring the technology on board.
Athenahealth's More Disruption Please initiative may serve the company's bottom line, but it's heart is more subversive: to dismantle the healthcare system as it exists today. And the company is doing it one person at a time.