Emergency medical technicians, first responders and paramedics—the backbone of emergency medical services—have worked for decades under a reimbursement system that effectively keeps their pay low and gives them an incentive to not always provide efficient, quality care.
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You never know who you might see jumping out of an ambulance to provide emergency care. It could be a rock star, a former teen heartthrob or even a hospital executive.
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Modern Healthcare presents its annual look at key industry trends affecting the healthcare workforce.This year's report focuses on issues involving the very front end of healthcare delivery: medical transportation, specifically the people who make up our nation's emergency medical services system. Who are the people staffing our ambulances and being the first to respond to medical emergencies, by land and by air, and how are their roles changing?
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An initiative to jump-start care coordination among Medicaid's costliest population may rely on an integrated-care program already operational in many states. But that worries some policy experts.
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Bonus plans that offer workers small financial perks when their hospitals meet clinical quality or patient-safety goals are becoming increasingly interesting ideas to HR execs.
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Consolidation is happening everywhere in healthcare, so it's not surprising that it's happening among hospitalists.
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An arid-like landscape continues to creep across vast sections of the country. But this phenomenon isn't tied to climate change, it's a cultural and professional one known as a surgical desert.
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For resource-strapped rural hospitals, measuring surgical quality is critical not only for spurring improvement efforts but also for retaining local patient populations.
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The California Public Employees' Retirement System ended 2010 with insurance rates $15 million lower than they might have been, thanks to efforts by hospitals and doctors to curb medical expenses.
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Although many providers and drug companies have frozen their compliance with a new federal payment reporting law until regulations are finalized, many devicemakers are busy preparing.
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Most administrators at investor-owned hospitals would say they can't imagine a time when their facilities will outnumber their not-for-profit counterparts, but the gap has been steadily shrinking.
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One of the central themes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, mentioned numerous times throughout the law, is the pressing need to eliminate healthcare disparities.
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The University of Michigan Health System counts itself as one of the country's largest research and teaching institutions, but bigger doesn't always mean better when it comes to integration.
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This year, 19 organizations submitted surveys for evaluation but failed to crack the 2012 IMS Top 100 IHNs ranking.
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Intermountain Healthcare in Utah saved $185 million in supply costs after bringing in a chief purchasing officer.
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