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As the federal government continues to push for home care services to keep patients out of more costly care settings, a new analysis estimates that the country's direct-care workers providing hands-on long-term care will outnumber healthcare facility workers by more than two-to-one. This boom in the direct-care workforce will mean the industry will face changes.
A broad survey of organizations within the healthcare industry show that pay increase budgets -- the money allocated primarily for pay raises of existing employees -- rose a modest 2.5 for 2012, according to Compensation Data Healthcare from Compdata Surveys.
As the ICD-10 debate blazes on, fueled by the one-year delay recently announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it helps to put the initiative in perspective, finds an industry veteran.
First announced May 2, the $156 million acquisition is aimed toward emerging accountable care organizations (ACOs) and will see Omnicell and MTS working to integrate medication management across the broader spectrum of care.
During testimony last week at the Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Irving, Texas-based VHA Inc., said that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Schedule H amendment, which regulates reporting for tax-exempt organizations, has overly burdensome requirements for non-profit hospitals.
All aspects of social media were addressed during the Connecting Healthcare + Social Media conference last week in New York, with one of the most pressing issues being how to see financial return from your social media efforts. Chris Boyer, director of digital marketing and communications at Inova, outlined five keys to get a solid ROI from your social media.
As hospitals and health systems launch construction projects and refinance debt in order to remain competitive in the marketplace, they should be considering all their capital financing options, said Thomas R. Green, CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based investment firm Lancaster Pollard.
Nearly nine-of-ten members of the general public think the cost of healthcare in this country is a serious problem and two-thirds say the problem has gotten worse in the past five years according to a new poll by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), NPR and Harvard School of Public Health.
Working with video conference and communications firm Polycom, St. Vincent Health System recently launched a new telehealth system, which has shown big results in a short time.
Opposition to the legalization of medicinal marijuana in the absence of scientific studies that demonstrate its safety and efficacy led the list of resolutions adopted by physicians of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) at the organization's annual meeting of its House of Delegates on May 19 in Boston.