Unsurprisingly, integrating medical staffs across multiple hospitals in a system has numerous effects on the culture within each individual medical staff, although these effects tend to be overwhelmingly positive. When medical staffs are unified correctly, each staff can still maintain its local...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 10
Peer recommendations are powerful tools for MSPs. They often complete the picture you are trying to put together of the advanced practice professional (APP) during the initial credentialing or reappointment process.
Despite considerable improvements in patient safety, an unacceptable number of medical errors still occur at the local and national level. That’s the finding of the report released in June by the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, a Boston-based advocacy group started in 2004 by the state...
Every profession goes through the stress of growth and expansion—as it develops, lessons are learned, achievements are acknowledged, and a path is established to help new professionals achieve success. Almost every MSP has felt unrecognized or misunderstood at some point in his or her...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 10
Also, medical boards take action against physicians in Massachusetts and California, medical group receives $2.6 million in overpayments, and patient medical images exposed online across the globe. Find out what’s happening in the world of federal healthcare regulations by reviewing some recent...
Many primary care physicians have decreased their hospital activity and instead focus on their ambulatory-based community practice. Financial factors and lifestyle choices are often behind such changes to a physician's practice. Although these physicians' ties to the hospital are weakened, many...
