Workforce
As healthcare mergers continue to pick up pace due to industry conditions that favor large-scale systems, it can be a difficult transition when organizations with different work cultures are forced to combine.
While certain technology jobs have gotten much of the glory this year - data analysts, security professionals and mobile application developers, to name a few - ICD-10 coders have also been in high demand and most have been scooped up.
Base salaries for healthcare executives climbed a modest 3.1 percent in 2015, a new survey from Sullivan, Cotter and Associates found, as the expanded responsibilities C-level execs face in healthcare is causing compensation packages to swell.
Healthcare organizations added 34,000 jobs in September, representing a small drop compared to the 41,000 jobs added in August, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday.
What's needed is a commitment from management, clean data, support for stakeholders such as the emergency room, a good data warehouse infrastructure and a support team.
A detailed analysis of anesthesiologists younger than 36 who worked in group practices found wage disparities existed in 2012, even when taking into account age, experience, hours worked and type of employer.
Even when accounting for factors such as experience, age and research, men are 15 percentage points more likely to have the rank of full professor - the senior-most position on a tenure track - than are women.
Healthcare businesses added 41,000 jobs in August, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday, a huge jump compared to the previous month as hospitals, ambulatory centers and physicians offices hired thousands in the last full month of the summer.
Home health workers employed by an agency are subject to the same minimum wage and overtime pay standards as those who perform similar services in a hospital, nursing home or other setting, according to an August 21 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
As the clinical-financial relationship tightens, hospitals may want to consider whether they have appropriately organized their staffing roles and relationships to take the greatest advantage of the trend.