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While a majority of healthcare professionals believe in the strong benefits a diverse leadership team would bring to their organization, less than 15 percent believe hospitals have taken the plunge in closing the broad diversity gap within the last five years, according to a new report published by Witt/Kieffer, entitled “Diversity as a Business Builder in Healthcare.”
The words ‘individual mandate’ have come to haunt President Obama and his administration, at least in the U.S. Supreme Court – but regardless of the forthcoming ruling that particular aspect of the Affordable Care Act just might double as a 2012 campaign pièce de résistance.
Jim Gobell
Chief Financial Officer
St. Luke's Iowa Health System
Sioux City, Iowa
Coming changes in the healthcare industry called for under ICD-10 represent nothing less than a sea change for healthcare organizations. The overall scope of these changes is daunting and has already posed significant challenges to these organizations as business enterprises. What began as a gradual transformation of clinical systems (i.e., DMR) under the Bush administration has evolved to have a material impact on both clinical and financial systems.
I step into the editor role at Healthcare Finance News at a very challenging and exciting time for the healthcare industry. With virtually every organization being charged with the difficult task of driving cost out of the system while simultaneously improving the quality of care, major changes are being made at every level at seemingly breakneck speed.
The U.S. Department of Labor has extended the comment period on its proposed rule to provide minimum wage and overtime protections to in-home care workers to March 12. The original comment period was scheduled to close on Feb. 27.
A new PwC report on clinical informatics shows the key to those benefits is for providers to use informatics to engage patients in managing their own health.
Americans’ inability to understand health information and navigate their way through the complex healthcare system leads to preventable hospitalizations, greater use of emergency care and reduced overall health status, says a paper in the February issue of Health Affairs.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the health reform law has eliminated lifetime limits on coverage for more than 105 million Americans.
Earlier this year, Forbes magazine published its first ever list of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs – folks who use business to solve social issues. On Forbes’ Impact 30 list is a 50-year-old optometrist named Jordan Kassalow who recognized as a student the potential of not only helping people in underserved areas of India and El Salvador to see but also helping them gain economic empowerment. Kassalow talked to Healthcare Finance News Associate Editor Stephanie Bouchard about being a business person and being socially responsible.