Within six months, the number of hospitals and health systems that joined or created an ACO grew by roughly 5 percent, according to Premier's 2013 Fall Economic Outlook.
Integration & Physician Issues
The rate of hospitals acquiring oncology practices has increased in recent years, according to a report by Alvarez & Marsal Holdings.
The following states have the most physicians retained from undergraduate and graduate medical education, combined.
Attracting and retaining physicians, especially those in primary care, is an enduring challenge for hospitals. Hospitals have begun deploying a strategy to meet this challenge that, at first glance, might seem surprising: including in the mix of a hospital's employed…
Physician and nurse vacancy rates in hospitals have increased dramatically from 2009 rates, according to AMN Healthcare's 2013 Clinical Workforce Survey.
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The United States is aging, and so are its physicians: 27.6 percent of the nation's physicians are 60 years old or older, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges' 2013 State Physician Workforce Data Book.
A proposed Florida bill would expand physician assistants' scope of practice and double the number of PAs physicians can supervise, according to a report by The Florida Current.
Physician employment and quasi-employment transactions were among the most frequent types of hospital-physician integration activities in 2011 and 2012, according to the HealthCare Appraisers 2013 report.
Nearly 40 percent of the nation's physicians — 39.8 percent — reported experiencing at least one symptom of burnout in Medscape's Physician Lifestyle Report 2013, but the causes of their burnout vary.
Clinician use of social media sites for job searching has doubled since 2010, with 42 percent of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied professionals saying they use social media during job searches, according to AMN Healthcare's 2013 Survey of Social Media…