"EHRs are a great idea. But we should have allowed the market to convince physicians of their usefulness. Instead, we have companies developing products to impress administrators. We have EHRs focused on billing rather than patient care. We have EHRs that do not help physicians care...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 37
This week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider features a few items that are quite critical of electronic health records (EHR) adoption. Physicians have complained that EHRs are more time consuming and don’t help improve patient care...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 36
To help reduce the number of appeals over short-term inpatient stay claims, CMS announced a proposed settlement to pay hospitals a portion of what they claim they are owed.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 36
“The voice of clinicians can be profound, particularly if our sincere goal is improving care for patients. People will hear what we say. They will listen and be affected.”
John Haughom, MD, urges clinicians to be leaders in transforming healthcare in a blog post on
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Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 36
You’ll notice this week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider is dominated by CMS news. Most of it was announced last Friday just as many of us were probably gearing up for the holiday weekend, but now that we’re all back to work, it’s time to...
The AOA and ACGME have begun the process of creating a single accreditation system. The final result could be a simplified verification process, but a lot must happen before the system is fully implemented?and the target date for completion is June 2020.
Medical staffs across the country have found that establishing their own private treasury accounts funded by staff dues and application/reappointment fees has helped them maintain autonomy from hospital administration. This separation has become especially apparent when conflicts requiring...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 9
Autopsy is a core privilege for pathologists, but because few pathologists perform the procedure in hospitals, this doesn't usually present a credentialing concern, according to some medical services professionals and consultants. Nevertheless, it can raise policy questions for medical...
