Staffing Articles
With a significant rise in workplace violence in the healthcare industry, measures are being taken to address and prevent it.
Realizing that a shortage of physicians is on the horizon, academic medicine is making diligent efforts to identify its causes and make changes to reverse course.
As healthcare providers become increasingly overwhelmed by workplace demand, interventions and treatments are needed at the individual and organizational level.
Is the concierge practice model the future of healthcare?
Many QI programs are subject to missteps, but approaches that implement QI essentials can bring healthcare closer to realizing its potential.
Meeting the future healthcare needs of aging baby boomers will require tackling the rise of chronic illness, addressing the impact of Alzheimer’s disease and reinventing care models to address the needs of a graying America.
Medical scribes can help improve patient/physician satisfaction by shifting focus from electronic health records back to the patient.
Licensed to do many of the same procedures as physicians — often at a lowered cost — nurse practitioners are increasingly poised to change the face of primary care.
How is crowdsourcing informing the doctor-patient relationship, and how can healthcare providers be prepared for the ways in which crowdsourcing is changing the dynamics in medicine?
As technology advances and more options for healthcare delivery become available, a plethora of service models are emerging. One surprising model, the house call, seems to buck the high-tech trend.
Medicine has come into the electronic age with telemedicine, which provides wider reaching care in an era when there is a projected doctor shortage.
A look at how an epidemiologist conducts an investigation into a measles outbreak shows just how complicated containing an outbreak can be.
