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Hospitals are seeing a spike in patient volume, higher staffing needs, loss of elective procedure revenue and inadequate Medicare reimbursement for services.

Enabling employees to telecommute and perform patient pre-registration and financial counseling has saved money and improved employee satisfaction.

Janie Wade will join the system in late February, succeeding Lydia Jumonville, who was named CEO this Fall.

Innovation Care Partners built a dashboard to engage physicians and offers them financial incentives to use the tool. The combination has already resulted in lower readmissions.

Private hospitals that can offer better benefits and working conditions, as well as higher salaries, are poised to lure fresh graduates as baby boomers exit their careers.

Award honors someone who has demonstrated significant leadership in the area of nursing informatics within the healthcare community.

Physicians feel down or seriously depressed at nearly twice the rate of the adult population. But there are some tweaks hospital executives might consider to ease the situation.

Jackson Healthcare CEO says Price brings "profound understanding of healthcare landscape," to the company.

Weingart Foundation also gave $7.5 million. The South Los Angeles' medical group will use the $15 million to help eliminate the physician shortage problem, which it estimates to be about 1,200 primary care and specialty doctors too few in the area.

The analysis cited uncertainty surrounding the tax and healthcare bills as one of the major contributors to the dip, along with a tight labor market.