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Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending March 21, 2014.
The quality of a hospital or health system is usually linked to patient outcomes, not to administrative or financial efficacy. But smooth interactions between patients and the hospital business office should also be viewed as critical to an organization's quality, says one CFO.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending March 14, 2014.
Hospitals are just beginning to catch on to the promise of integrated data analytics to manage patient population health and measure treatment outcomes. These benefits not only assist the transition toward patient-focused care, they're helping healthcare institutions reduce associated costs.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending March 7, 2014.
The nation's overall employment numbers beat economists' expectations in February, but healthcare sector job growth seems to have stalled.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending February 28, 2014.
The senior care market was one of the few healthcare sectors to avoid many of the major changes in the Affordable Care Act. Nonetheless, many senior care providers are beginning to experience a "trickle down" effect that will dramatically change the way they do business in coming years.
Since 2008 when CMS first implemented the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey for U.S. hospitals, the scores from these surveys have become increasingly more important to hospital executives as a measure of quality. They are now used to determine 30 percent of the total incentive under the Hospital Value Based Purchasing program.
Last month, Paul R. Bengston, CEO of Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital, a small, critical access hospital located in St. Johnsbury, Vt., was chosen to lead the American Hospital Association's Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2014. The 21-person governing council represents small or rural hospitals in the AHA's policy process and member services initiatives.