Primary certification criteria of the American Board of Pathology (ABP) for Anatomic Pathology Certification are a common requirement for obtaining autopsy privileges, according to Samuel Furci, MPA, principal at Furci Associates, LLC, a healthcare accreditation compliance...
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 47
The American Medical Students Association (AMSA) and the watchdog group Public Citizen are speaking out against two trials which are meant to study the effects of resident duty hour restrictions. The iCOMPARE and FIRST studies are trying to determine if rates of death and serious complications...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 47
A study published in JAMA looked at burnout of U.S. physicians by specialty. Emergency medicine, general internal medicine, neurology, and family medicine had the highest rates of burnout. The specialties with the lowest rates of burnout were pathology, dermatology, general pediatrics, and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 47
Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts will pay $850,000 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights to settle a HIPAA violation. The hospital also agreed to adopt a robust corrective action plan to correct deficiencies in its HIPAA compliance program.
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Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 47
“In our experience, the only sustainable way to help physicians achieve their potential in serving their patients is to engage them as partners in practice and enterprise success. Likewise, physician engagement is the only way to hold physicians, other providers, and staff accountable for...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 47
CMS allows a hospital system to have a unified medical staff made up of all the individual hospitals in the system. The Joint Commission takes the hospital system issue a step further and requires that the medical staff bylaws of a multi-hospital system contain the process that would allow the...
Your medical staff governance documents may fail to provide clear guidance, be noncompliant with accreditation standards, or create liability for your hospital if they are inadequate for today’s care environment. During the webcast, ...
If they’re a member of your medical staff, and you allow people without a license to be on your medical staff, then you need query the NPDB. It’s not a function of whether they’re licensed or not, it’s a function of whether they have been made a member of your medical staff or your healthcare...
