From advanced practice professionals to telemedicine providers, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Overcoming Competence Assessment Challenges will walk you through every step of collecting adequate performance data to assess practitioner competence.
Members of the public are open to physician assistants and nurse practitioners playing a greater role in healthcare delivery, according to a recent Health Affairs study. Researchers analyzing the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Consumer Survey data for December 2011 to January...
The public may be more willing to accept wider roles for some healthcare professionals, but the debate over expanding practitioners’ scope of care rolls on, as this week’s news showed. A study in Health Affairs suggests there is potential for growth in the role that physician assistants...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 23
Have you developed standards for assessing the competency of locum tenens, telemedicine, or new technologies at your facility? Medical staff professionals and physician leaders must be prepared for the challenges these areas create for competency assessment.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 23
The average 30-day hospital readmission rate fell to 18.4% in calendar year 2012 from 19% during the previous five years, according to analysis by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). That translates to about 70,000 fewer readmissions for the year, CMS said.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 23
Nurses, dentists and psychologists asked the Illinois Legislature this spring for more authority to make medical decisions with demand expected to surge under the federal health care law, but each time lawmakers sided with doctors and turned them down.
