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Hospitals and health systems try their best to anticipate and meet the demand for specific drugs. But drug shortages - whether due to outbreaks of specific illnesses or unanticipated supply bottlenecks - are a fact of life in the medical world.

Underfunding security is a fairly common practice in the healthcare industry, but CFOs need to recognize how critical it is to provide the appropriate resources for security initiatives and technologies.

With the Office for Civil Rights gearing up to begin auditing providers, the best thing to do is to be prepared.

Network adequacy concerns are starting to generate renewed interest in new health plan provider mandates.

The parallels between the nation's ICD-10 switch and the popular fantasy epic are real.

Advances in molecular and genomic technology are creating a maze of new options for payers and patients replete with quite a few meaningful improvements as well as some dead ends.

In the effort to curtail the physician shortage, the industry is making a play for physicians who have left active practice.

The role of the modern hospital CFO has changed considerably in recent years. Not only do they perform a vital strategic role overseeing enterprise planning and performance, by necessity they have become more involved in the clinical aspects of healthcare.

Home health agencies can help hospitals reduce readmissions and control overall healthcare costs, according to a new study, but how effective these agencies are in meeting such goals largely depends on the quality of organizational support given to healthcare field workers.

The ranks of Medicaid are reaching record levels, giving payers and providers, especially, new opportunities.