I just completed my third Consolidated Accreditation and Licensing Survey or "CALS visit" (aka Joint Commission survey) at Good Sam, and it was the best experience of my career. It wasn't due to my staff or the hospital survey prep team (as they always perform outstandingly). It...
The Supreme Court of the State of Washington (the “Court”) remanded a trial court’s decision to grant summary judgment in favor of a physician requesting a hospital to disclose the record of its investigation into his medical practice under the Washington State Public Records Act (PRA).
Given the rapidly changing healthcare environment, the role of physician leadership in driving change is of great importance. Great leaders not only will drive the changes necessary to implement a culture of safety and high reliability, but they will also be able to communicate...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 26
Spanish surgeons put "augmented reality" technology to the test last week in Madrid, where a chondrocyte transplant operation was carried out using Google Glass to allow experts in the U.S. to live-consult the procedure in real-time, streaming on the Internet. A 49-year-old man underwent the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 24
From advanced practice professionals to telemedicine providers, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Overcoming Competence Assessment Challenges will walk you through every step of collecting adequate performance data to assess practitioner competence.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 23
More hospitals and large multispecialty groups are promoting their "top doctors" as patient magnets, but leadership and physicians alike must proceed with caution when advertising their best practitioners, according to an ethics column on the amednews.com website.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 23
Have you developed standards for assessing the competency of locum tenens, telemedicine, or new technologies at your facility? Medical staff professionals and physician leaders must be prepared for the challenges these areas create for competency assessment.
Credentialing and medical staff services professionals are found in a diversified and vast number of environments: insurance, hospitals, physician offices, surgical and ambulatory care centers, and more.
An Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision to uphold the Arizona Medical Board's decision to issue a letter of reprimand to a physician. The court concluded that the board's vote to issue the letter of reprimand was valid because the board met the quorum and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 6
Physician employment has been a growing trend for years, yet physicians, hospitals, and health systems alike are still ironing out wrinkles in employment agreements.
