Budgeting
Baby boomers, higher income, will drive growth in healthcare spending over the next 8 years, CMS Office of the Actuary projects.
Hospitals are nipping and tucking their supply chain spend by opting for half-price, reprocessed items like cardiology catheters.
Applying advanced analytics to patient datasets can help organizations adopt a comprehensive approach to deliver personalized medicine.
Whether it's for scheduling flexibility, telecommuting options or an equitable salary, sometimes women have to ask tough questions to gain leverage in negotiations, says HIMSS' new Chief Americas Officer Denise Hines.
LFS patients who received early cancer surveillance extended their lifetime, but incurred higher healthcare costs.
Consolidation is a primary factor in the price growth on the facility side, with prices for hospital-based procedures increasing 43 percent in seven years.
The findings make a fiscal case for increasing prevention efforts among patents of all ages, not just the elderly.
Efforts to eliminate gender disparity have cut the gap in salaries that men and women earn at Johns Hopkins, but the differences make an impact.
Volume increase is the main cost driver, as the number of such procedures has sharply risen across nearly all ages under 65.
By creating economies of scale with a full-service supply chain, University of Missouri Health Care was able to improve its bottom line.