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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 April 4, 2014.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a highly regarded teaching hospital in Boston, but in 2012, the hospital found out it had one of the highest rates of readmissions among Medicare patients in the country. That meant federal fines of more than $1 million -- and a lot of soul searching for the staff.
When it comes to using business intelligence tools, most medical practices have yet to graduate kindergarten. But a closer look at these BI systems suggests it's time to start using them to define trends in patient population and improve operational and clinical performance.
Since labor is the largest component of healthcare costs, hospitals should spend the majority of their time managing department expenses. Indeed, the biggest challenge facing clinical managers is providing quality patient care and staying under budget.
Physicians are increasingly called upon to offer both clinical and operational expertise to ever-expanding areas of administrative responsibilities. Will a post-graduate management degree soon be an essential qualification for a physician executive?
Healthcare providers are good at collecting data, but are they using it to make good clinical and financial decisions?
In a recent report, MedPAC identified the common traits of the nation's poorly-performing hospitals. These are traits that have a big impact on hospital financial performance and should be understood by all hospitals -- even if they aren’t performing poorly currently.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending March 28, 2014.
In today's healthcare environment, improving the performance of employed physician practices is essential. But simply employing a physician isn't enough. The structure of compensation can be a key component for improved physician alignment.
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.