Telemedicine uses technology to connect prisoners, who are often housed in remote areas, with medical experts throughout the state. It’s one way that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is trying to control spending on prison healthcare. But while telemedicine has shown some success in...
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that a medical staff can sue its hospital board. Avera Marshall medical staff members brought the case against South Dakota-based Avera Health System over bylaws changes at the hospital in Marshall, Minnesota, and the case found its way to...
Nurse practitioners (NP) seeking to practice with no restrictions should look for work in the Pacific Northwest, upper New England, or the Rocky Mountain states, but not the South, according to an issue brief by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The brief, titled “Tapping the Potential of Nurse...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 3
Mark your calendars for March 12-13, 2015 for the return of the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Join us as we bring MSPs and medical staff leaders together to discover innovative approaches to top medical staff challenges.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 3
West Palm Beach police recently took a teen into custody after he was found roaming the halls of St. Mary’s Medical Center wearing a stethoscope and a white lab coat with the hospital’s logo and “anesthesiology” stitched on it.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 3
Partial, early results of a $300 million program to reduce hospital readmissions show that only a small percentage of the agencies produced noteworthy results.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 3
“Humility does not mean that one has no pride in accomplishments. Humility means that previous accomplishments mean nothing in terms of what one should do next.”
-Robert M. Centor, MD, discusses humility in medical leaders in a blog post on...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 3
In last week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider, I briefly discussed preventing violence in hospitals. Sadly, after the fatal shooting of a surgeon in Boston...
Licensed providers in New York State can now be reimbursed for telemedicine services from private insurers. New York joined 21 other states that have made the move thus far. And many states that have yet to adopt telemedicine reimbursement bills are following suit, according to the American...
