Healthcare Research
Media Room
Jackson Healthcare is interested in contributing to the thought
leadership discussion on improving the business of healthcare
delivery. As part of our contribution to this discussion we have
developed market research material, white papers and articles,
press releases and the Jackson Healthcare Review. Please
feel free to use this information as long as it is attributable to
Jackson Healthcare as its source.
October 03, 2011
How can hospital executives best engage physician managers
without deflating their passion for their life's purpose?
Lapin outlines three actions hospital executives can take to foster
teamwork and common vision with clinical staff. To read the
full article click
here.
August 01, 2011
Do senior hospital executives have an obligation to mentor and
prepare the next generation of hospital leaders? Are we doing
everything we can to help our successors? Read the full
article
here.
May 02, 2011
Would you believe that effectively guiding your organization's
values, culture and performance is as simple as asking yourself one
question? (Hint: It's more personal than you think.)
Read the full article
here.
September 21, 2011
Physicians estimate the cost of defensive medicine to be between
26 and 34 percent of total annual healthcare costs. At an
estimated $2.5 trillion in annual spending, this means $650-850
billion is spent each year on medical orders intended to avoid
lawsuits rather than treat patients.
This eBook, A Costly Defense: Physicians Sound Off on the
High Price of Defensive Medicine, summarizes physician
opinions about defensive medicine collected between October 2009
and May 2011.
May 24, 2011
In April 2011, Jackson Healthcare conducted a national physician
survey to identify and explore the shifting dynamic between their
fixed and variable compensation sources.
Click here to
download the report.
January 30, 2012
The majority of nurses are spending one quarter of their
twelve-hour shift on indirect patient care, which supports care
delivery but does not require direct interaction with the
patient.
January 07, 2012
On Thursday, February 16, 2012, Jackson Healthcare will host the
second annual Hospital Charitable Services Conference and Awards
Banquet at The St. Regis Atlanta.
January 06, 2012
The Texas Hospital Association (THA) and its marketing
subsidiary, HealthSHARE, announce the addition of national staffing
company Jackson Healthcare as their exclusive vendor for temporary
and permanent physician, nurse and allied health staffing.
September 08, 2010
While much of the attention has been on the clinical benefits of
health IT, it can also dramatically improve the movement of
patients, supplies, staff and other critical aspects within a
hospital. Adaptive technology can be the necessary glue to
achieve system-wide peak performance and process improvement.
Find out how hospitals and health systems that embrace change and
deploy the righ technologies to see it through will not only
survive, but thrive. Click here
to read this article, which was originally published in the book,
Paper Kills 2.0: How
Health IT Can Help Save Your Life and Your
Money. It was also featured at TAG
Think.
July 06, 2010
A recent independent national physician Gallup survey found that
physicians attribute 26 percent of overall healthcare costs to the
practice of defensive medicine. Of the physicians surveyed, 73
percent agreed that they had practiced some form of defensive
medicine in the past 12 months.
June 28, 2010
Despite ongoing health care reform efforts, one thing does not
appear to be changing: the physician-patient relationship.The
unique relationship that physicians originally shared with their
patients was severed when third-party entities took control of the
transactions between parties. Today, we are attempting to "reform"
a fragmented health care system that isn't designed to reward
healthy lifestyles and high-quality, low-cost medical care.