The federal sequester took a 2% bite out of Medicare reimbursements, and healthcare reform and other forces have led to lower inpatient volumes for many providers. Now hospitals are turning to outsourcing to save money, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. Traditionally, hospitals and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 39
Sixty wrong-patient/wrong-site/wrong-procedure sentinel events were reported during the first half of 2013, according to the October edition of The Joint Commission’s Perspectives newsletter. Other sentinel events near the top of the list were unintended retention of a foreign object and...
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 Journal - Volume 22, Issue 10
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
