A new survey finds it's not just clinical staff but administrative positions that are going unfilled causing further pressure on health systems and forcing them to spend more on overtime and contractor pay.
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 […]
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.
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 […]