Ensuring you have competent physicians who are providing high-quality care is essential to the success of any healthcare organization. To evaluate physician care, hospitals and medical staffs have spent years developing their peer review processes. CMS and other major accreditors all require...
Effective immediately, CMS says texting of patient information and of patient orders is permissible—with some caveats. In a memo to CMS state survey agency directors on February 8, CMS noted that due to technological advances in encryption and more secure interfaces between information...
Advanced practice professionals (APP) have medical training but are not physicians. APPs have more advanced training and independence than do allied health professionals, and they play an increasingly important role in today’s healthcare industry. Some states allow independent practice by nurse...
The Accreditation Commission for Health Care’s (ACHC) recent Quality Review Edition of its publication TheSurveyor for acute care hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAH) examined the most...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 3
Dawn Anderson, CPCS, CPMSM, director of credentialing, privileging, and licensing at Ob Hospitalist Group in Greenville, South Carolina, deploys progressive strategies to combat burnout and enhance employee satisfaction. We caught up with Anderson to delve into her leadership approaches, which...
Many medical staffs bemoan the fact there are too many meetings that are poorly run, poorly attended, generally a waste of time, and often without any definitive outcome(s). Do you want this to be the assessment of a meeting run by you? Learn nine quick tips to help medical staff leaders run an...
