The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) last week announcd a completed draft of model legislation to create an Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. The compact would expedite the process of issuing licenses for physicians who wish to practice in multiple states. The model legislation...
A team of international health policy experts recently compared administrative costs of U.S. hospitals with those of other industrialized nations with various types of healthcare systems: Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. The study,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 37
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has called for a 12% increase in federal funding in 2015 to help recruit and educate new nurses to fill newly created position and replace retiring nurses. The ANA projects the U.S. will need 1.1 million new nurses by 2022.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 37
According to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine, physicians are losing an average of four hours a week recording patient information into electronic medical records (EMR).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 37
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) recently released its finalized model legislation to create an interstate compact to provide physicians a streamlined process for applying for licenses in other states.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 37
"EHRs are a great idea. But we should have allowed the market to convince physicians of their usefulness. Instead, we have companies developing products to impress administrators. We have EHRs focused on billing rather than patient care. We have EHRs that do not help physicians care...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 37
This week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider features a few items that are quite critical of electronic health records (EHR) adoption. Physicians have complained that EHRs are more time consuming and don’t help improve patient care...
The newest issue of CRCJ is here, and includes the first installment of our look at credentialing practitioners in hospital-owned clinics. This was the topic of a recent Credentialing Resource Center Insider Editor’s Note that generated a high level and variety of...
An Iowa Board of Medicine administrative rule banning abortion through a teleconferencing system is politically motivated and “based on a conservative-leaning panel appointed by a conservative governor in opposition to abortion,” not on medical practices that would benefit rural patients,...
Nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA) were originally envisioned to provide primary care services in underserved areas. To gauge NP and PA activity in non-primary care roles, Brett Coldiron, MD, and Mondhipa Ratnarathorn, MD, studied the scope of independent procedural...
