Aside from hospital executives, nurses saw the highest increase in pay from 2013 to 2014, according to the Hay Group's annual healthcare compensation survey of over 1,200 U.S. hospitals.
Integration & Physician Issues
A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2007 revealed approximately 94 percent of physicians to have some type of relationship with representatives in the pharmaceutical industry.
U.S. physicians and teaching hospitals were paid at least $3.5 billion in 4.4 million payments by drug and medical device companies between August and December 2013, according to CMS.
Healthcare and medicine are chock full of studies, a few of which zero in on physicians as the subjects. Here are nine interesting findings about physicians' work habits, handwriting, apparel, Internet preferences and diets.
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Successful physician-hospital integration has the potential not only improves workflow but also lead to more coordinated, patient-driven and effective care, according to a recent Health Affairs blog post.
In the face of continuously changing healthcare reform laws, the increasing need for healthcare as baby boomers reach retirement age, nationwide physician shortages and other factors, the overall demand for physicians is on the rise — but some states show…
U.S. Representative John P. Sarbanes (D-Md.) has introduced the Primary Care Physician Reentry Act, which is aimed at helping reduce the nation's primary care physician shortage.
The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Holy Cross Hospital Medicine Residency Program is set to launch in July 2015 after receiving accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Physicians' top financial goals include securing retirement funds, having enough funds to actually retire and funding long-term care expenses, according to American Medical Association Insurance's second annual Employed Physicians Financial Preparedness Survey.