A shift in healthcare toward minimally invasive procedures performed with robot technology—for which safety often is disputed—is driving growth in the medical robot market. The market is expected to reach nearly $3.8 billion by 2018, expanding at a compounded annual growth rate of 16.1%,...
“Over the past few months, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has been exploring the use of wearable computing,” John Halamka, MD, wrote in a KevinMD post this week. “In the emergency department we’ve been evaluating an early unit of Google Glass, a high tech pair of glasses that...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
The U.S. Supreme Court recently announced it will hear North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission to determine whether a federal agency has the right to intervene in state medical licensure board decisions.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
It’s a good month for money and numbers—tax preparation, March Madness, and the 2014 MSP Salary Survey! HCPro’s Medical Staff Leader Insider team wants to gauge the financial prospects for MSPs in 2014. Please take a few moments to complete our updated salary survey. If you’ve done this...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
The nation will get a good look this week at the future faces of medicine. Friday is Match Day, the high-pressure equivalent of Draft Day in professional sports, when medical school seniors find out where they will be doing their residency training. Students found out Monday whether they...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
“Hospitals can do more to protect patients. Improved security, such as surveillance of drug storage areas, tighter chain of custody on drugs, and better tracking of controlled substances are obvious areas to target,” wrote Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson and Erika T. Broadhurst, a special...
