Figure 1, a photo sharing app that allows healthcare professionals to share pictures of their patients with each other and medical students for educational purposes will be launched across Western Europe by the end of the year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
Following a data breach in August in which Chinese hackers stole 4.5 million patient records, Community Health Systems (CHS) now faces a class action lawsuit brought by one of those patients
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
“Like good police work, good medicine depends on deliberate, inefficient, plodding, expensive repetition. No system of data management will ever replace it.”
- Abigail Zuger, MD, discusses the disadvantages of relying on electronic medical records in a...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
With a second healthcare worker at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas testing positive for Ebola, I’m sure you’ve been thinking about the preparedness of your own facilities to handle a possible case. The CDC recently announced several...
For many workers, healthcare employment is going the way of fast food and retail: unstable schedules, punitive employers, and rigid management. Nursing assistants, overwhelmingly women and relatively low-paid, are hardest hit, according to University of Massachusetts sociologists...
A bill to streamline the physician reentry process, introduced last month by U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) last month, has been referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. H.R.5498, the Primary Care Physician Reentry Act, would establish a grant program for medical schools,...
I’ve been poring over my notes from the 2014 NAMSS Educational Conference and Exhibition, and discovered a quote from Hugh Greeley’s Tuesday presentation, “This is What We Live For: Effectively Dealing with Our Most Complex Applicants and Re-Applicants,” that stands out. Describing the MSPs...
Not sure how to organize and present all your OPPE data? Just open your toolbox—the OPPE Toolbox, that is. Get the tools you need in The OPPE Toolbox: Field-Tested Documents for Credentialing, Competency, and Compliance. This vital new addition to the HCPro library...
If it passes in November, a California ballot measure would make the state the first in the nation to require drug testing for physicians. The requirement is part of Proposition 46 and represents a new twist in a decades-old fight to raise the cap for some damages in medical malpractice...
Are physicians less well trained as a result of work-hour reforms that cap residents’ work hours at 80 hours per week? An article in the October issue of HealthAffairs suggests duty-hour limits haven’t adversely affected hospital mortality and length-of-stay. Authors Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD...
