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John Figueroa resigned his position as chief executive officer and director of long-term care pharmacy provider Omnicare effective immediately, the company announced earlier this week.

Acting CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner and other healthcare leaders discuss how the industry is dealing with the practical issues of establishing ACOs at the Third National Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Summit in Washington, D.C., June 6-8.

It's going to take more healthcare reform for productivity gains to show up from HIT adoption, according to a new report.

Accountable care organizations today mainly exist as a concept – a high-minded concept to be sure, but a concept just the same. The elements required to make the concept a reality remain largely elusive to many provider groups as they search for cohesion, cooperation and machination.

With an increasing number of healthcare organizations realizing they need to focus on labor costs, their largest operating expense, technology companies that provide budgeting and forecasting software are bringing the accurate data and predictive information to organizations right when they need it most.

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.

Nurses and nurse managers employed in physicians offices have begun receiving salary increases even as most other clinical and administrative support staff have seen their pay stagnate or decline, according to a recent survey by communications consulting firm UBM Medica US.

Most electronic health records require providers to concentrate on typing text into specific fields – and many physicians and nurses feel that it mars the patient experience. That’s why a number of companies are helping increase EHR adoption by providing easy-to-use alternatives to keyboard data entry.

For years, the compelling argument for telemedicine has been that it allows patients to access doctors at any time and from any place. Now doctors are finding that they can use telemedicine platforms to improve – and in some cases expand – their practice.

In its Spring 2012 Economic Outlook report, Premier healthcare alliance reported that impending reimbursement reductions and uncertainty around the potential impact of health reform will likely lead to more conservative hospital capital budget expenditures for the year.