The importance of medical staff bylaws should compel every hospital and its medical staff leaders to ensure that bylaws are adequate, accurate, and in compliance with applicable requirements. A...
Every day in the news, you can’t help but hear about the terrible impact of overuse and addiction to opioids. As our country desperately searches for solutions, one of the questions being asked is how much patient satisfaction survey questions on pain management have affected physician...
Saint Elsewhere Hospital is about to sign a five-year contract with Teleradiology of America (TRA). TRA is a large, international company serving hundreds of hospitals with a cadre of several hundred radiologists. According to the contract, TRA will begin interpreting radiology exams from 10:00...
This is the first year that all 50 states have adopted some form of telemedicine coverage. Telemedicine is the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients using an audiovisual platform—a doctor’s appointment over Skype, remotely monitoring a patient’s vitals, messaging pictures of rashes and...
The committee structure within a department performs important functions that can be used to address both patient care and general business issues in an organized fashion. Committees should reflect a department’s well-organized approach to address issues.
If you believe half of what you read, just north of 50% of physicians nationwide, on average, are suffering from burnout. When they hear this, many medical staff leaders react by saying there is probably some burnout in their facilities, but it is not that high. Others react by saying that...
Although not a new issue, with changes in lifestyle and practice, increased burnout, and staying in practice at later ages, physicians no longer want to spend one in three nights in the hospital. Medical Staff Briefing talked to medical staff experts to get solutions to...
The transition from medical school to residency is an aspect of physician training that has historically been overlooked in terms of research and modernization, according to Christopher J. Richards, MD, fellow in clinical instruction at Harvard Medical School in Boston. In...
Our topic for this column is one that is not often written about or focused on by various regulatory bodies. No one would argue that hospitals do not have their fair share of rules, regulations, policies, and procedures. Hospitals regularly schedule ongoing reviews of medical staff bylaws,...
