The latest batch of online time-wasters offer several questions, and your answers determine which celebrity/state/car/dessert is “really you.” Yesterday I saw a variation—it was an opportunity to discover which Winter Olympic sport most closely matched your office or department. If your answer...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 7
Last week’s news included a report that the television show House had helped hospitals in Germany diagnose cobalt intoxication in a patient. I don’t know how many Medical...
As the provision of healthcare becomes more integrated and focused on improving quality, organizations of all sizes will need to rethink how they credential, privilege, and conduct peer review of physicians across entities. Further, as hospitals employ more physicians, they will need to address...
Last summer, Oregon joined the growing list of states with centralized credentialing database initiatives on the books. Now the state is working to deliver the goods.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 5
As chilling as our top story is this week, it might lead to a discussion about the widening variety of care sought by patients. “Alternative therapies” are part of the lexicon for many people, and physicians shouldn’t dismiss them completely if there is replicable, clinical study evidence that...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 4
Access to care could be considered the theme of this week’s edition. One report shows that the United States received a D- on the American College of Emergency Physicians report card when it comes to access to emergency care. Another survey, based on data from the 2013 Commonwealth Fund...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 3
This headline on a recent blog post caught my eye. Briefly, the blog referred to a recent study in Medical Education that sought to find out whether medical student behavior, as seen on social media,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 2
More physicians are delaying retirement and practicing longer, and medical staffs across the country are wondering how to help physicians stay in practice longer while promoting quality care. The fact is, many medical staffs aren’t prepared for an aging physician population. If your organization...
Every medical staff has dealt with a version of this situation: A physician yells at a nurse during surgery or throws something in frustration. Suddenly the medical staff is faced with a problem: How do we deal with this potentially disruptive physician?
