The Department of Veterans Affairs must hire “tens of thousands of new doctors, new nurses, new clinicians” to address a shortage of employees who are directly involved in treating patients, a factor many experts said was a main driver in the waiting-list scandal that rocked the agency this year...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
Medical staffs are discovering their governance documents are inadequate for today’s care environment. These trusted documents may now fail to provide clear guidance, be noncompliant with accreditation standards, or create liability for the hospital. However, a full bylaws...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
According to the National Health Interview Survey, the number of Americans without health insurance fell by 3.8 million during the first quarter of the year, which represented an 8 percent decrease. Approximately 41 million people remain uninsured.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
A joint study conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Premier, Inc., found that redundant and unnecessary use of antibiotics may have cost U.S. hospitals $163 million, as well as increase risks to patient safety.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
In a survey of more than 20,000 physicians, the majority reported feeling overextended and hoped that steps would be taken to address the physician shortage.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
“Usability should be the driving quality of all health IT. Unless health IT functions in a way that makes our practices more efficient and facilitates improvements in our patient care, it isn’t doing what it was intended to do.”
Robert W. Wah, MD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
Electronic health records (EHR) continue to be a hot topic in the news. It seems like everyone has their own ideas of how to improve them—see the blog post I quoted in “Heard this week.”
Federal regulators are reversing course and will resume publicly releasing data on hospital mistakes, including when foreign objects are left in patients' bodies or patients were give the wrong blood type. USA Today reported last month that CMS had stopped publicly reporting a host of...
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,...
