New data from The Scientist‘s recent salary analysis survey points to a tried-and-true tale in the life sciences industry: Industry pays more than academia, Americans make more than their global counterparts and men take home more money than women. American men in the life sciences make on average $110,594 a year. American women? More than $30,000 […]
@_bakulpatel keep up the good fight for innovation and safety, with good @ONC_HealthIT colleagues @Jacobr @JodiDaniel — Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_MD) October 4, 2013 Dr. Farzad Mostashari leaves his job as the head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT at HHS today. His next step: joining the Engelberg Center for Healthcare […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Fourteen veterans will endure a different kind of bootcamp this week: one that helps prepare them for jobs in the medtech industry. The AdvaMed Medical Technology Veterans Program Bootcamp kicked off yesterday and runs through Sept. 24 in Washington, D.C. The program helps selected veterans apply skills built on the battlefield to civilian job applications, […]
Harvard Business Review called it the sexiest job of the 21st century. Data scientists are in huge demand, especially in healthcare. There’s an unquenchable thirst at the moment for analytics information that can help hospitals and payers respond to public health challenges like predicting who is more likely to be readmitted after discharge or who […]
Even the Cleveland Clinic, one of the top-ranked health systems in the U.S., can’t escape the blow of cuts in reimbursements to hospitals. A statement from the clinic today said the health system would cut $330 million from its 2014 budget as it works toward “driving efficiencies, lowering costs, reducing duplication in services and enhancing […]
Nearly 90 percent of healthcare service leaders polled said they were anticipating mergers and acquisitions within the next year, according to the results of a GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services survey of 223 senior level executives in healthcare services. This is to allow businesses to grow during a tough economy, Darren Alcus, CEO of GE […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
There’s an interesting angle to the state health insurance exchanges that hasn’t been talked about much, at least around here. An article today in Business Insider points to its importance. In the process of opening up access to health insurance through state-based exchanges and federal subsidies, new healthcare reform provisions shift power from employers to […]
With the current demand for well-trained health IT professionals expected to rise even more, New York’s Department of Education is hoping to produce students that will be well prepared. Next year it’s launching a health IT school that combines four years of high school with a two-year technical school. It’s part of a wider initiative […]
This graph is a good visual depiction of how aging baby boomers, advances in technology and shifts in the way healthcare is delivered under reform may influence jobs in the healthcare sector. In a Labor Day article, PBS directed us to interesting data published last year by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Occupational […]
Healthcare employment will remain stable during the last half of 2013, with a slight improvement in hiring from last year in permanent jobs and a 15 percent spike in temp positions, according to the results of a survey from CareerBuilder.com and MiracleWorkers.com. “While projected additions to full-time staffs have improved marginally from last year, temporary […]
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics came out with its June jobs report last week and, consistent with usual trends, healthcare jobs are booming. In June 2013 there were approximately 20,000 new healthcare jobs in the U.S., ¾ of which were in the ambulatory care sector and ¼ of which were in hospitals. Healthcare jobs […]
The executive vice president who led the capital deployment team at Safeguard Scientifics has resigned as the investment firm goes through a re-organization initiated by CEO Stephen Zarrilli, according to a statement from the company. Zarrilli was named CEO in November. Jim Datin’s resignation is scheduled to take effect June 30. Datin joined Safeguard in […]
Despite reported cuts in reimbursements, the average physician enjoyed a moderate-to-significant boost in income this year. But that came at a price. Namely, docs are spending way more time on paperwork, thinking more about ACOs and stressing about the future of reimbursement. According to Medscape’s 2013 Physician Compensation Report, the actual number of patients that […]
How many nurses does it take to run a hospital? Legislatures in at least seven states and the District of Columbia are trying to answer that question as they debate bills that would require hospitals to have a minimum number of nurses on staff at all t...
AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) is revamping its research and development divisions to improve drug development by cutting 1,600 from its global operations and focusing R&D staff in three sites including Gaithersburg, Maryland. It plans to ditch its London headquarters in favor of a new $500 million center in Cambridge in the UK by 2016. By focusing on […]