I picked a great week to fill in for my colleague, Son Hoang, because I probably would have missed this survey otherwise: the 2014 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives. I will be honest; the results made me want to cry for a few different reasons. Reason No. 1 is...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 8
Hospital medical staffs, MSPs, and governing bodies should take note of the changes CMS made to its final rule earlier this year, which went into effect in July. These changes will affect hospital medical staffs, although not right away.
The Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program's latest scope of work, which gets underway this month, has some notable results to follow. During the three-year program period that just ended, hospital readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries declined by 13% in QIO...
Although telemedicine has the potential to make access to care simpler and easier, healthcare experts and telemedicine advocates still have concerns that regulatory obstacles are preventing the industry from reaching its full potential, while raising legal questions for both...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 31
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Florida’s controversial law restricting physicians and medical personnel from asking patients about gun ownership. The decision overturned a previous district court ruling that declared the 2011 law unconstitutional.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 31
Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center found no major improvements in outcomes for patients who had robot-assisted bladder surgery over those who had standard open surgery, according to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 31
In U.S. hospitals, a significant amount of time is wasted due to inefficient communication technology, resulting in a loss of billions of dollars every year, according to a recent study from the Ponemon Institute.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 31
"It's not just about doing the right thing for your patients ... It's about proving to someone else that you've done the right thing, and sometimes the proving takes longer than the doing."
Christine Sinsky, MD, discusses some of the causes of dissatisfaction...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 31
Some of you may recall that a few weeks ago I wrote about a proposal to ban handshakes in healthcare settings to reduce the spread of disease. I’ve recently heard of a...
