HCPro is now offering some of our popular medical staff leadership titles as eBooks. With physician leaders constantly on the go, or not being physically present in the hospital as often as they once were, you may be struggling to provide them the education they need. eBooks are the solution,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 47
Medical Staff Briefing provides the strategies and updated information medical staff leaders and medical services professionals need to confidently meet their daily challenges. This monthly resource provides time-saving tools, expert advice, and analysis to help you effectively...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 42
Physician age, addiction, and disruptive behavior are common concerns for the medical staff. Taking a proactive approach to address impairment issues will help the medical staff ensure patient safety, protect physicians' rights, and reduce the hospital’s lawsuit risk. Join us on Wednesday,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 39
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) quietly updated its guidelines last spring. In the 90-minute webcast, FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook, expert Todd Sagin, MD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 8
Medicine lags behind the law by several decades, but it is proceeding down the same path, wrote Richard Gunderman MD, PhD, and Mark Mutz in a recent opinion story in TheAtlantic. Rankings are playing an increasing role in how medical schools and hospitals assess their performance...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 5
The public now has until tomorrow to submit suggestions for revisions to the NPDB Guidebook. The updated National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) guide will incorporate legislative and regulatory changes adopted since its last edition (2001), including the merger of the NPDB with the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 43
It’s estimated that more than a third of all mental-healthcare in the U.S. is now provided by primary care physicians (PCPs) and other practitioners because patients don’t want or can’t easily access psychiatric care, according to Suzanne Koven, MD. However, many PCPs lack the time or training...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 42
During any screening test, there is a chance of so-called overdiagnosis—finding something that looks like cancer but isn’t, or a cancer that’s so small and slow-growing it would never cause a problem. In those cases, patients may get unnecessary biopsies, surgeries, radiation, or drugs that...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 41
Take a close look at how medical care is being delivered, and it’s clear that physicians and hospitals are being asked to work more closely together to maintain quality even as payments start to shrink. If that’s the case, would it help if more hospital administrators were also clinicians (i.e...
