Operations

The opportunity for cost reduction through smart resource and waste management is high. To maximize this opportunity, hospitals and health systems should look for medical waste processing companies that emphasize green initiatives.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending May 2, 2014.

April brought "widespread" growth of jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday morning, and a return to normal for job growth in the healthcare sector.

With so many pressures to contend with, physician practices are scrutinizing their performance perhaps more than ever.

Last week's ruling in the case of ProMedica Health System vs. the Federal Trade Commission offers key lessons for CFOs about how hospitals and health systems should proceed with mergers or acquisitions.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending April 25, 2014.

There's a lot of buzz in the healthcare community about the right path to choose for accreditation and deemed status with CMS. For many years, The Joint Commission has been the number one choice, but Det Norske Veritas, a newcomer in 2008, is gaining significant ground.

Hospitals may have less control over readmissions than clinicians, administrators or federal regulators would like to believe, new research suggests, meaning that the readmissions penalties imposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may be inappropriate.

After years in the shadows, operations applications are about to step into the spotlight as hospital administrators shift their focus away from clinical IT applications.

Engagement is a big buzzword in healthcare these days. Every program seeks to achieve it; every provider wants to enhance it. But what is engagement exactly?