Among high-performing physician-researchers, women tend to spend more time on domestic responsibilities and fewer hours career-building than men, according to a new study. The authors conjecture that this unequal division of home labor may explain why fewer women reach the elite level of the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 9
Families may decide to use a retail-based health clinic because they believe it is convenient and less expensive, but according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), these clinics do not provide children with the high-quality, regular preventive healthcare children need. In an updated...
Cultivating influence means doing so well with what we actually control that we are able to influence things in which we have an interest but do not control.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 8
In 2008 the predicted cost to implement ICD-10 ranged from roughly $83,300 for a small practice to $2.7 million for a large practice, according to a cost study initiated by the American Medical Association (AMA) and conducted by Nachimson Advisors. However, an updated 2014 study predicts the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 7
Physicians Tim Gueramy and Tracey Haas are on a mission to help entrepreneurial physicians improve the field. Last March, the husband-wife team launched The Walters Physician Incubator, an Austin, Texas, nonprofit that's open only to physicians with a startup idea. In less than a year, the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 6
Hospitals can be very dangerous places for patients, according to a KevinMD blog post by Robert Pearl, MD, earlier this week. Pearl outlined four risks that hospitals pose, along with their causes and possible solutions that could save lives. The risks are: psychological harm, physical harm,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 5
Last month a panel of experts recommended that the threshold for treating people over 60 for hypertension be raised from 140/90 to 150/90. The panel determined that there was little evidence that lowering systolic blood pressures between 140 and 149 in older people caused more good than harm....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 4
Legislation that would allow physicians to apologize for bad treatment outcomes—without those apologies being used against them in malpractice lawsuits—is again under consideration in Rhode Island. The bill wouldn't stop malpractice suits, but would make apologies inadmissible in lawsuits. The...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 2
Healthcare systems could do more to identify and engage care partners—who don’t provide day-to-day care or serve as surrogate decision makers but do help chronically ill or elderly patients navigate healthcare and facilitate communication with physicians. According to a JAMA Viewpoint...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 1
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has backed a CMS proposal to phase in new patient safety standards for hospitals that wish to contract with qualified health plans in the Health Insurance Marketplaces.
