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After a period of capital budget cuts and spending freezes, hospitals may be seeing a thaw in capital expenditures.

Un upstart California healthcare union is in danger of folding following a decisive defeat to a bitter rival in a recent vote of Kaiser Permanente employees.

The hundreds of healthcare human resources executives who traveled to Tampa last month weren’t there for the sun, but for business.

Methodist of Southern California automates HR and payroll

According to a 2009 report by the American Medical Association, one in six doctors works for a hospital, and the number is quickly growing.

Zynx Health is lending its clinical decision support tools to the push for accountable care organizations in a pilot project with five healthcare organizations from across the nation.

Congress must act to extend financing options

While providers around the country are investing heavily in financial counseling, a large number of patients meriting financial assistance still fall through the cracks. Those being missed are declared bad-debt and sent to collections. Clearly, this is not ideal.

Patient bad debt is becoming a serious threat to profitability at healthcare organizations nationwide, representing an estimated $65 billion in uncollected revenues in 2010. And, while self-pay patients do account for some of this debt, insured patients who neglect to pay balances after the payer pays its portion represent the fastest growing segment of individuals with outstanding medical bills.

Back in March, on the day he signed the healthcare overhaul into law, President Obama conceded that the administration still had a lot of educating to do.