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Tenet Healthcare Corp. earlier this week reported second quarter net income of $42 million or 10 cents per diluted share for the quarter ending June 30, compared to $40 million or 8 cents per diluted share for the second quarter of 2011.
Despite all the innovations in the healthcare industry, the sad truth is that errors with wrongly prescribed medication are happening more than ever. Not only can this be costly for healthcare organizations, it can also have tragic consequences.
Respondents to a 2011 AMN Healthcare survey indicate that healthcare professions are increasingly taking advantage of social media and mobile devices for job searching purposes and shifting away from some traditional job search methods.
Cost cutting is no longer a laudable aspiration in healthcare facilities - it is a way of life. At the center of this effort is the materials manager (MM) and it can be an unenviable position to occupy. One might even say MMs are between and a rock and hard place when it comes to their role in cost containment.
When managing the hospital chargemaster, working smarter trumps working harder. And the results? Compare an hour with a shovel to one with a backhoe.
Thomas R. Green, CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based investment firm Lancaster Pollard recently discussed financing capital projects with Healthcare Finance News Editor René Letourneau.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a proposed rule on July 3 that most medical devices distributed in the United States carry a unique device identifier (UDI).
There are market forces keeping the healthcare mergers and acquisitions market active but not frenetic, according to analysts at a panel called “Financing The Deal” at the Nashville Health Care Council on May 15.
Although summer movies highlight the deeds of solo superheroes, attacking hospital supply costs is strictly a team effort. At the Premier Breakthroughs conference in Nashville on June 6, representatives from Methodist Health System in Dallas, Texas, chronicled their 18-month collaboration with Premier Consulting Solutions – a partnership that helped significantly reduce supply costs and keep them there.
Highmark, Western Pennsylvania's largest health insurer, took another step toward building a comprehensive provider network in the region with the announcement in June of a $275 million commitment to Jefferson Regional Medical Center.