Workforce

With labor costs in 2013 accounting for approximately 60 percent of hospital and health system operating budgets, many healthcare systems and hospitals have begun assessing high-labor cost areas with an eye to curbing those costs.

An effective workplace safety program is imperative in healthcare settings to ensure the well-being of workers and hold down costs related to worker injury.

Cancer care delivery is a system in crisis, with escalating costs, an increasingly aging population and complex treatments for a difficult disease stretching healthcare resources, according to a new Institute of Medicine report.

A perfect storm of demographic trends is creating a critical - and growing - gap between the demand for care and the number of doctors available to provide it.

Despite laws in 17 states allowing them to practice independently, nurses with advanced degrees say some insurers still don't accept them into their credentialed networks as primary care providers.

While U.S. job growth was less than economists expected in August, the healthcare sector remained a bright spot, adding 32,700 jobs.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending September 6, 2013.

In a report released by the Unversity of Calgary's School of Public Policy, Professor Hugh Grant makes the argument that physicians' incomes have risen far too high while financial problems plague Canada's healthcare system.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending August 30, 2013.

Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have rocketed into the distance education spotlight since Stanford first offered one in the summer of 2011. Healthcare educators are getting on the bandwagon.