Workforce

While news outlets pointed out the disappointing June jobs numbers Friday, the healthcare sector continued to add jobs, gaining more than 13,000.

The healthcare economy is expected to grow at twice the rate of the national economy between now and 2020 and will create an additional 5.6 million jobs over those eight years, according to a report released by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

Integrity, compassion and perseverance are the key traits of an effective leader, Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who successfully landed a plane on the Hudson River in January 2009, told an audience of healthcare financial managers at HFMA's ANI conference in Las Vegas on Monday.

A new report from the Battelle/Biotechnology Industry Organization shows that U.S. jobs in the biosciences industry are booming.

Pharmaceutical sales representatives are not eligible for overtime pay ruled the United States Supreme Court.

These days, healthcare systems feel pressured to transform in order to drive down costs and improve patient care. One way to cut costs is through gainsharing.

John Figueroa resigned his position as chief executive officer and director of long-term care pharmacy provider Omnicare effective immediately, the company announced earlier this week.

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?