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Those self-service kiosks that are often seen in supermarket pharmacies are becoming comprehensive health and wellness screening stations, thanks to SoloHealth.
North Shore-LIJ Health System in metropolitan New York expects to save $8 million by sharpening its focus on labor. Jim Bosco, vice president of corporate human resources at the health system, recently discussed the benefits of its new workforce management technology with Healthcare Finance News Editor Rene Letourneau.
There's a tremendous amount of waste occurring in the healthcare industry. Organizations are moving to lean management because it exposes what and where these wastes are and rethinks the way work is done via value streams. Healthcare Finance News talked to a lean management expert to take a look at how waste impacts organizations.
A plan by Kansas state officials to move virtually all of the state's Medicaid recipients into managed care organizations offers a glimpse at a national trend, with potential rewards and risks for insurers mulling MCO contracts in growing Medicaid markets.
According to a study released Monday by The Commonwealth Fund and published in the August issue of Health Affairs, safety-net hospitals that currently rely on politically-negotiated funding will face significant financial reversals if they fail to change their business practices before the Affordable Care Act (ACA), deficit reduction programs and a weak economy force cutbacks in subsidies.
The country's five largest insurers released their second quarter earnings in late July and early August, revising their 2012 projections, for better and worse.
Tenet Healthcare Corp. earlier this week reported second quarter net income of $42 million or 10 cents per diluted share for the quarter ending June 30, compared to $40 million or 8 cents per diluted share for the second quarter of 2011.
Despite all the innovations in the healthcare industry, the sad truth is that errors with wrongly prescribed medication are happening more than ever. Not only can this be costly for healthcare organizations, it can also have tragic consequences.
Respondents to a 2011 AMN Healthcare survey indicate that healthcare professions are increasingly taking advantage of social media and mobile devices for job searching purposes and shifting away from some traditional job search methods.
Cost cutting is no longer a laudable aspiration in healthcare facilities - it is a way of life. At the center of this effort is the materials manager (MM) and it can be an unenviable position to occupy. One might even say MMs are between and a rock and hard place when it comes to their role in cost containment.