The Maryland Board of Physicians plans to propose legislation in 2015 that requires physicians to be fingerprinted and continually monitored for criminal charges. Physicians would be required to apply for a background check when first seeking a medical license, and currently practicing...
During the 2014 AMA Interim Meeting this week, physicians voted to update the AMA’s policy on maintenance of certification (MOC). The updated policy encourages specialty boards to investigate alternative approaches to MOC and directs the AMA to report annually on the MOC process. In addition...
Ease of use is one of the hallmarks of effective systems, whether they’re online or on paper. The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)’s recently announced efforts to ease the reporting mechanism seem like steps in the right...
Five ER staff were sacked at a German hospital for posting humiliating photos of patients online, a spokesman for the clinic in the western city of Aachen has confirmed. According to media reports that surfaced last month, the five were terminated with immediate effect from the Aachen University...
Next week, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) will deploy enhancements aimed at improving users’ experience with the Data Bank system. They include streamlined filtering and selection processes for Primary Occupation, which previously required users to search a long, complicated list...
The “cold war” between hospital management teams and physician communities may be thawing, writes Jeff Goldsmith, PhD, president of Health Futures Inc., and an associate professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. In an entry in Health and Hospital...
