There are thousands of process improvements required to make healthcare more efficient. Nearly all of these require collaboration at either the macro or micro level.
Leadership & Management
With all the cost cutting and greater emphasis on efficiency, the security that once lured people to the healthcare industry is gone, and many people who worked in it for decades are now looking elsewhere for employment.
Bill Bithoney, MD, spent several years as the chief of general pediatrics primary care at Boston Children's Hospital, in addition to serving as a professor at Harvard University School of Medicine.
The emergency department at North Adams (Mass.) Regional Hospital will not close as planned Friday due to a temporary court order issued Thursday, according to a report by The Republican.
It is possible to tell if someone is an innovator in the very first interview — but only if you ask the right questions.
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Healthcare is rapidly changing at every level. While this evolution is obvious in the technologies used to treat patients, it also runs much deeper to affect the business model and even the facilities themselves. Over the last several years, U.S.…
Joel Allison is CEO of Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest nonprofit health system in Texas.
Urgent care is a booming subset of the healthcare industry. There has been a 20 percent growth of existing clinics in the past four years, and use of the clinics has also grown in popularity. As this boom continues, health…
Reputation is a very powerful consumer driver with a majority (60 percent) of consumers reporting reputation is "very important" when considering a hospital for future needs. A new whitepaper from the National Research Corporation outlines the key connections between hospital…
Mackinac Straits Health System in St. Ignace, Mich., is laying off 15 employees and reducing the hours of eight others, effective April 1, according to an Up North Live report.