About Half of Hospital Executives Plan to Implement Accountable Care Organization
Growing numbers of hospital executives plan to implement accountable care organizations (ACO) in 2014, according to one study, but a second study revealed that nearly half of the executives remain skeptical of their benefits. ACOs...
U.S. Receives D+ on Emergency Care Report Card
States Grades on Access to Emergency Care from ACEP Emergency Care Report Card 2014 Emergency care in the United States has a lot of room for improvement, according to the latest report card from the...
Top of the Health Informatics Ladder: Chief Informatics Officer
As the healthcare industry continues to adopt more innovative technology in day-to-day operations, the oversight and harnessing of data has become more demanding and complex. Most major medical operations now have a chief informatics officer...
Healthcare Manager vs. Healthcare Administrator
When examining healthcare careers, it’s often easy to mistake the roles of a healthcare manager and healthcare administrator. The two careers are similar in many ways, so much so that the terms have become interchangeable...