Workforce
Despite the relatively weaker contribution of health employment growth to the current recovery, the health sector share of total employment is equal to 10.71 percent as of July 2013, barely below its all-time high rate.
Salaries for doctors are predicted to grow in 2014, with some classifications experiencing a larger bump than others.
The delay of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate gives businesses and health plans an opportunity to better prepare, not to put off what they know they must do.
Hospitals are doing what they can to get an edge, and to help, they're turning to chief strategy officers.
Physician compensation models are notoriously complex and opaque. Yet compensation is the point at which employed physicians feel change most acutely, and change has been widespread.
As the population ages, the need for people to provide long-term care services is sharply increasing, even as the affordability and availability of LTC insurance is diminishing. The state of Connecticut is taking action.
Everyone uses email but doctors continue to show a reluctance to use it to communicate with patients.
As the annual benefit planning season draws near, hospitals are facing some of the same struggles over fine-tuning their plans as other employers trying to meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
Job growth in the healthcare sector for the month of July was fairly stagnant, adding 8,300 jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.
Richard Bracken, CEO and chairman of Hospital Corporation of America, will be retiring as CEO at the end of the year.