Healthcare adds 23,000 jobs in September despite hurricane-related setbacks
The U.S. economy shed 33,000 jobs in September after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma forced thousands of businesses to close temporarily, including hospitals in Texas and Florida.
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White House to order health care alternatives
The White House is finalizing an executive order that would expand health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states, a unilateral move that follows failed efforts by Congress to overhaul the health care system.
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Can the US repair its healthcare while keeping its innovation edge?
The United States health care system has many problems, but it also promotes more innovations that its counterparts in other nations.
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Doctors feel excluded from healthcare value efforts
U.S. hospitals and health care groups have experimented over the past decade with new management structures and alternative payment models to provide quality health care at lower cost.
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How is technology revolutionizing healthcare administration as we know it?
Over the past two decades, dozens of leaps in technology as it pertains to medical usage have occurred. It’s the driving force in modern medicine today.
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Why one hospital system is cutting while bulking up
Advocate Health Care, the largest hospital network in Illinois, has invested about $700 million in the last five years on an outpatient binge. That includes nearly a dozen clinics set to open through 2018.
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US healthcare reform can’t wait for quality measures to be perfect There’s a debate in the United States about whether the current measures of health care quality are adequate to support the movement away from fee-for-service toward value-based payment.
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