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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 August 1, 2014.
The healthcare industry of the future will look nothing like it does today, but for those who rise to the challenge, the potential is great.
Some of us thrive on change; others resist it, run from it or are paralyzed by it. Change is the one thing constant in our world generally, and of course, in healthcare. How can you inspire your team to create catalysts for change who will separate your organization from the pack?
If hospitals want to survive the new healthcare environment, they can't simply brace themselves for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' new reporting measures -- they must proactively improve their quality scores.
If physicians and health executives could design and build a new hospital with features they've long dreamed of, would the finances fall into place? One booming healthcare market is about to find out.
Health systems are making strides to move care beyond the hospital walls and better connect patients with resources that can keep them healthy. It starts by identifying areas of risk and harm -- both inside and outside of care facilities.
As healthcare continues the transition to value-based reimbursement models, acute and post-acute care collaboration that benefits both organizations -- financially and clinically -- is the future of patient care.
Facing threats to net revenue, most healthcare organizations have embarked on massive cost reduction initiatives. Unfortunately, the first tactic for many of these initiatives continues to be a "tried and true" approach which is often ineffective -- operational benchmarking.
At a time when emergency care is increasingly viewed as inconvenient, overcrowded and overpriced, and possibly losing ground to urgent care clinics, some health systems are trying to make their ERs a place where people actually want to go and spend their time and money.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending July 18, 2014.