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Napoleon Hill, an American writer focusing on personal success, once said, “action is the real measure of intelligence.” I agree with this statement, and it is exciting to see that much of the healthcare industry does, too.
HealthONE’s 9,000-employee staff works long hours in a stressful, fast-paced environment to assure quality healthcare for their patients. Now, the Denver-based healthcare system is giving back to their dedicated team through a new wellness program with incentaHEALTH.
Wanna bet you can lose weight? New York City-based HealthyWage is hoping you’ll try.
As patient-centered medical homes become a larger part of the healthcare system, it’s important that all the participants be trained on how to work in teams, said Larry Mauksch, M.Ed., during the Maine Primary Care Association’s annual conference held this week.
Based on conversations with hospital CEOs, healthcare consulting firm Huron Healthcare ranks the top 5 issues keeping healthcare leaders up at night.
Doctors can expect to see salary increases in 2012 but they’ll be smaller than those in 2011 says a physician compensation survey released this week by global consulting firm, the Hay Group. In 2011, physician salaries increased by 2.7 percent but expectations are that in 2012 they'll increase only by 2.5 percent.
Health Workforce Solutions announced today its third quarter 2011 results for its HWS Labor Market Pulse Index (LMPI), an indicator of local healthcare labor market demand in the 30 largest U.S. markets based on announced expansion and contraction plans and other data.
I've described information security as a Cold War, requiring constant investment and vigilance to innovate faster than the hackers and criminals who are stealing data to commit identity theft. I'm spending an increasing percent of my resources on regulatory compliance and data protection.
The advocacy group Health Care for America Now has had a loud voice in the healthcare reform debate over the past three years. The company started a Tumblr blog titled "We are the 99 percent," where followers submit photos of themselves holding a sheet of paper, with a message as to why they choose to occupy Wall Street. The site states: "We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution." The list goes on.
Three of the top four most overrated jobs in 2011 are in healthcare, according to a ranking by national job search portal CareerCast.com. Surgeons, physicians and psychiatrists are ranked number two, three and four, respectively.