Workforce

Respondents to a 2011 AMN Healthcare survey indicate that healthcare professions are increasingly taking advantage of social media and mobile devices for job searching purposes and shifting away from some traditional job search methods.

Nurses and nurse managers employed in physicians offices have begun receiving salary increases even as most other clinical and administrative support staff have seen their pay stagnate or decline, according to a recent survey by communications consulting firm UBM Medica US.

People in CDHPs may not have easy access to cost, quality data A recent study by RAND researchers published in the journal Health Affairs indicates that consumer-directed health plans could save $57 billion annually if they grew to comprise 50 percent of all employer-sponsored health insurance in the U.S. But are health plans delivering the kind of information people using these plans need to truly direct their own healthcare decisions?

A new analysis suggests that disruptive innovation is the only way to restrain skyrocketing healthcare costs and transform the industry.

Job growth in healthcare continued to be the trend in May, with the sector adding 33,000 jobs, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

A recent study by Alpharetta, Ga.-based staffing company Jackson Healthcare found that U.S. physician compensation is among the lowest of western nations.

President Obama's recent pronouncement in favor of same-sex marriage has no legal effect on employers' decisions on whether to offer benefits to workers' domestic partners, but some advocates believe it could reinforce a decade-long trend toward coverage.

The president and CEO of a Minnesota health system embroiled in a billing controversy is retiring in July. The board of directors of Fairview Health Services decided during a special meeting on May 23 not to renew Mark Eustis' five-year contract, which expires July 31, 2012.

As the federal government continues to push for home care services to keep patients out of more costly care settings, a new analysis estimates that the country's direct-care workers providing hands-on long-term care will outnumber healthcare facility workers by more than two-to-one. This boom in the direct-care workforce will mean the industry will face changes.

A broad survey of organizations within the healthcare industry show that pay increase budgets -- the money allocated primarily for pay raises of existing employees -- rose a modest 2.5 for 2012, according to Compensation Data Healthcare from Compdata Surveys.