A healthcare organization’s culture is what drives behavior, which in turn drives outcomes. If the organization as a whole has embraced a culture that encourages adverse-event reporting without punitive consequences, while at the same time requiring the assumption of responsibility when an...
MSPs are optimistic that their working conditions will go back to normal once the pandemic is over. Almost 70% of MSPs said they will return to working onsite when it is safe to do so.
The #MeToo movement has encouraged a wide range of industries that once looked at sexual harassment as “part of the job” to start taking steps to improve working conditions. Healthcare is among those industries that are not only finally recognizing the extent of the problem but looking for...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare employees to use or share only the “minimum necessary” information they “need to know” to do their jobs. For example, a coder needs to look at the entire record of a patient’s hospital stay to apply all the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 9
A United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (the “Court”) ruled in favor of a plaintiff, finding that when an organization adversely affects a person’s future job prospects based on a condition protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it may count...
Performance evaluations for medical staff leaders do not have to be lengthy or intimidating. The evaluator should assess whether the leader successfully achieves the following.
