Despite their best intentions, practitioners do make mistakes, which can lead to malpractice lawsuits filed by patients and their families. Frequently, hospitals are also roped into these cases through claims of corporate negligence or negligent credentialing. The...
The Court of Appeals of Georgia reversed a lower court decision and ruled that a hospital was entitled to immunity under Georgia's peer review protection law.
The saying "If you build it, they will come," applies to baseball fields and malls, but not CPOE. Getting these systems up and running involves a host of challenges, including cost and IT infrastructure, but the most formidable of those challenges is getting the docs on board...
In my travels around the country, it seems that all physicians have similar concerns and complaints when potential opportunities for improvement are identified. Peer review is, after all, performed for the purpose of helping every doctor be the best doctor he or she can be....
One year ago, CMS handed down a ruling that allowed hospitals utilizing telemedicine providers to credential physicians through a proxy, using information about the physician from the distant-site facility rather than collecting and verifying information on their own.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio granted a protective order requested by Cleveland Clinic Health Systems (Cleveland Clinic) to prevent the disclosure of certain documents in an indemnity lawsuit it filed against a nurse and staffing company. The...
