Hospital admissions declined 2% in 2013 to 35.4 million, according to the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) latest statistics. In 2012, 36.2 million admissions were reported.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 3
West Palm Beach police recently took a teen into custody after he was found roaming the halls of St. Mary’s Medical Center wearing a stethoscope and a white lab coat with the hospital’s logo and “anesthesiology” stitched on it.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 2
In response to the growing threat of violence, the Indiana University Health La Porte Hospital formed its own police department and swore in its first five officers this week.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 1
The Minnesota Supreme Court recently ruled that a hospital’s medical staff did have legal standing to sue the hospital’s administration, overturning two lower court decisions.
Medical scribing has emerged in response to the introduction of the EMR into clinical practice. Medical practices, hospitals, and emergency departments hire scribes to mitigate the inevitable slowdown created by providers who are not adept at typing or navigating computer systems. According to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 50
An Arlington, Texas physician was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $5.5 million for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare out of $100 million.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 49
Why are so many organizations struggling to change the medical staff’s view of peer review from punitive to positive? Nationally renowned medical staff leadership experts Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, and Mark Smith, MD, MBA, CMSL, dissect major issues that plague the peer...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
A contemporary definition of peer review is far more "expansive" than the traditional notion of individual case/chart review. It includes the ongoing evaluation of an individual's performance for all relevant performance dimensions using all appropriate, relevant, and available sources of...
This month begins a series on understanding and implementing an effective ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) peer review program in your organization. This series is designed to demystify the process and offer OPPE best practices that can actually be implemented by medical staffs.