A range of regulatory changes have arrived-with more just around the corner. And now, acute care hospitals have another accrediting option to consider. In midsummer, the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) joined the ranks of DNV, the Healthcare Facilities...
In May 2011, CMS released its final rule on credentialing telemedicine providers. The rule allowed hospitals utilizing telemedicine services to credential through a "proxy" by relying on information from the distant site hospital during the credentialing and privileging process...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 36
For the seventh consecutive year, primary care physicians top the wish list for most hospitals, medical groups and other healthcare organizations, according to a release from healthcare consulting and recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins. Among the findings in the firm’s soon-to-be-released 2013...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 35
Only 245 cases of patient harm in surgeries using the Da Vinci robot system have been reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2000. The figure seems “very, very low” to Johns Hopkins University researchers, who have identified eight cases of patient harm or death that were...
There is an infinite amount of data about healthcare access and equality out there-studies, focus groups, white papers, and more. But is anyone correlating that data to see how it all intersects? In Connecticut, one organization is doing just that. Medical staff leaders harness...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 9
In the first installment of a three-part webcast series on overcoming competency assessment challenges, Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, senior consultant at the Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, Mass.; and Anne Roberts, CPCS, CPMSM, senior director of medical affairs at...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 24
Institutions that notice diagnostic errors need to have a better way to notify physicians when their diagnoses are incorrect, researchers say, because internists’ overconfidence in their decisions may be hurting patient care. Even though they were right only 6% of the time and should have had...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 31
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) 2012 Annual Report shows an overall increase in the number of physicians and nonphysicians who participate in continuing medical education (CME). More than 24 million physicians and other healthcare professionals were educated...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 30
Big health spending variations nationwide are largely driven by differences in the use of postacute services such as skilled nursing homes and home health care by Medicare beneficiaries, and by higher prices that some hospitals and physicians charge commercial insurers, according to an Institute...
