Healthleaders Preliminary federal data from June 2024 shows healthcare job creation lagging behind other sectors, furthering the ongoing labor shortage across the industry. A recent article from Healthleaders reports that healthcare grew 49,000 jobs in June, down from the average of 64,000 jobs over the past year, with the majority of these healthcare jobs (22,000) coming from hospitals and ambulatory …
Traceability Helps Healthcare Supply Chains Combat Counterfeit Products
Supply & Demand Chain Executive Counterfeit products pose an ongoing threat to the safety and wellbeing of patients throughout the healthcare industry, and pose significant risks to manufacturers and retailers as well. A recent article from Supply & Demand Chain Executive examines the ways counterfeiting affects different parts of the healthcare supply chain, and shows the benefits of comprehensive traceability …
Digital Strategies for Building Healthcare Resilience
News-Medical Global healthcare systems have faced numerous and unprecedented challenges in the wake of COVID-19 and rapidly changing market conditions. For organizations throughout the industry, rising costs and resource shortages have meant a growing need for agility and resilience. A recent article from News-Medical provides tips for building this type of resiliency through powerful digital technology, from investing in telehealth …
Challenges of Implementing an ERP
The benefits of ERP systems are numerous. Whether it’s obvious improvements to organization, or slightly more “hidden” advantages like reducing overhead or inspiring more collaboration – if you look for the good stuff, you’ll find it! Every ERP provider is more than ready to give you a list of benefits… But what about the Challenges of Implementing an ERP? Implementing …
The Need for Effective Hospital HR Management
The value of human resource management is often overlooked by many healthcare firms. However, the effect of a properly managed department can have a tremendous impact on the overall health and performance of the facility. Investing in a hospital HR management system is one of the best ways to increase productivity and enhance overall administration. If you are an acting hospital HR manager, here …
Hospital HR: How To Avoid A HIPAA Violation As A Hospital Employee
In a fast paced environment, like that of a hospital emergency room, it is easy to forget to protect a patient’s privacy. By shattering this sacred trust between medical personnel and their clientele, many of these employees can lose both their license for practice and/or pay fines of thousands of dollars. One of the most crucial aspects of hospital HR …
Cerner – Population Healthcare Through Big Data Analytics
Cerner Corp. has had a strong financial performance in the second quarter, earnings coming in at 44.7 percent. The increase in earnings is due, in part, to an increase in sales of its cloud-based product, HealtheIntent. This specific product utilizes big data analytics to discover patterns and trends in population health data, in order to upgrade and enhance health care …
What To Expect From A Career In Hospital Human Resources
When it comes to selecting a career path, we all have the right to be picky. Why settle for less than your talents and skills are really worth? Human resources is a fast-growing field. More and more often, those with prospective careers in human resources continue to show interest in (and pursue) human resources positions at hospitals. A Noble Calling …
How Epic Systems Helped Reveal the Flint Water Crisis
One of the reasons that physicians are given to encourage them to adopt electronic health records is the capability of the technology to improve how physician practices manage large volumes of patient information. But the lead contamination of the Flint, Mich. water supply brings to light another benefit of EHRs: they can support public health. The physician who brought to light …
Why Epic Systems Might Be Perfect For You
Present day healthcare is moving from the traditional paper medical charts to a digital format. Epic Systems provides electronic record systems. Epic’s health care software is used at thousands of health clinics and hospitals all over the United States. In addition to storing electronic health records for more than half of all Americans, Epic applications offer: Registration and Scheduling Billing …
