With a week’s worth of survey responses in hand, I thought I’d share some very early results:
41% of respondents say their department reports to the chief medical officer/vice president of medical affairs. Among those who oversee other departments or services, close to 50% oversee...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 13
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has updated its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) recognition standards. Almost 6,800 sites have achieved NCQA recognition, the organization stated. Many payers across the country plan to pay practices a bonus for meeting NCQA standards. In...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 13
A regulatory loophole in Florida state law allows cash-only medical clinics to skirt the licensing and regulation that apply to most other clinics—a loophole that allegedly allows some of them to dispense drugs illicitly. SB 746, introduced by state Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, would require...
It’s a good month for money and numbers—tax preparation, March Madness, and the 2014 MSP Salary Survey! HCPro’s Credentialing Resource Center team wants to gauge the financial prospects for MSPs in 2014. Please take a few moments to complete our updated salary survey. If you’ve done this...
“Over the past few months, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has been exploring the use of wearable computing,” John Halamka, MD, wrote in a KevinMD post this week. “In the emergency department we’ve been evaluating an early unit of Google Glass, a high tech pair of glasses that...
Legislation that has been proposed in the state of Washington would create a “quality improvement program” for physicians that would allow the Washington Medical Quality Assurance Commission to intervene “in cases of questionable behavior or care, or in cases where there is reasonable cause...
Georgia hospitals could scale back their services under a plan unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Nathan Deal meant to help rural communities keep healthcare facilities open. Speaking to the Rural Caucus of the General Assembly earlier this week, Deal proposed a change in hospital licensure rules that...
A shift in healthcare toward minimally invasive procedures performed with robot technology—for which safety often is disputed—is driving growth in the medical robot market. The market is expected to reach nearly $3.8 billion by 2018, expanding at a compounded annual growth rate of 16.1%,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
The nation will get a good look this week at the future faces of medicine. Friday is Match Day, the high-pressure equivalent of Draft Day in professional sports, when medical school seniors find out where they will be doing their residency training. Students found out Monday whether they...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
“Hospitals can do more to protect patients. Improved security, such as surveillance of drug storage areas, tighter chain of custody on drugs, and better tracking of controlled substances are obvious areas to target,” wrote Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson and Erika T. Broadhurst, a special...
