Managing the healthcare workforce: cost reduction or innovation

Managing an Organization’s Largest Cost: The Workforce

Optimisation of Healthcare Contracts: Tensions Between Standardisation and Innovation; Comment on “Competition in Healthcare: Good, Bad or Ugly?”

An important determinant of health system performance is contracting. Providers often respond to financial incentives, despite the ethical underpinnings of medicine, and payers can craft contracts to influence performance. Yet contracting is highly imperfect in both single-payer and multi-payer health systems. Arguably, in a competitive, multi-payer environment, contractual innovation may occur...

Innovation or stagnation? Crossing the creativity gap in healthcare.

L ike excellence, the word innovation is often overused in healthcare, frequently espoused in well-intended promotional materials lacking in any real substance. Referred to indiscriminately, innovation is a nice feel-good notion. But implemented strategically, it can mean the difference between performing on par with the industry and achieving exceptional success that includes defining strong h...

ChildWIN: Child Welfare Workforce Innovation

The Children’s Home Society of Florida (CHS) embarked on an effort to improve child outcomes and workforce outcomes through an initiative called ChildWIN. Consisting of three components (career ladder, reduced caseloads, and Solution-Based Casework training), this initiative was fully implemented in Seminole County, partially implemented in Orange County, and not implemented in the Treasure Coa...

Planning and managing the physician workforce

National planning and management of the physician workforce is a multifaceted, difficult, and even controversial activity. It is an important subset of overall health workforce planning and management, which contributes to a country's having an effective and efficient health care system. This commentary builds on a new survey of specialty considerations by Israeli medical students early in thei...