Healthcare Briefly
Robert TruogThe physician workforce, decoded weekly.
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Who Gets to See the Math?
More than 60% of hospitals now run AI tools that comb through labs, medications, orders and physician notes. Meanwhile, only about a quarter of rural administrators have ever formally estimated what it would cost them to lose a surgeon.
So...
The Risk Moved Down the Org Chart
Hospital spending on contract staff is almost back to its pre-pandemic level. The contracts themselves never came back.<br><br>
That’s the quiet finding in our look at how contract staff normalization masls employment risks staff normaliza...
The Year Medicine Started Paying for Accountability
11:24 AM (2 minutes ago)
6.0% compensation growth. 3.4% productivity growth. In hospital-based roles, 7.2% against 1.6% — a gap wide enough to have its own weather system.
Those numbers come out of this year’s compensation data, and the t...
Healthcare Learned How to Hire. It Still Hasn’t Learned How to Start
6.0% compensation growth. 3.4% productivity growth. In hospital-based roles, 7.2% against 1.6% — a gap wide enough to have its own weather system.
Those numbers come out of this year’s compensation data, and the tempting read is that healt...
The Supply They’re Building and the Jobs They’re Not Designing
68.7% of family medicine residents stay in-state after training. 33.2% of colon and rectal surgery residents do. Nobody has figured out how to make the second number behave like the first.
This week, health systems apparently decided they...
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Robert Truog, founder of PhysEmp.com. Observations from 30+ years in physician recruiting—workforce shortages, compensation, contracts, AI in healthcare and recruiting, and the ongoing challenge of staffing hospitals without NASA-level scheduling.
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