Some elements of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which would expedite the medical licensing process for physicians who wish to practice in multiple states, will be ready for review early next year, according to the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). A drafting committee of the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 48
CPEP, The Center for Personalized Education for Physicians, has received a $200,000 grant from the Colorado Health Foundation to help primary care and mental health clinicians who have been out of clinical practice for an extended time resume clinical practice in underserved/rural areas. The 18-...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 48
Healthcare employment continued to increase in November, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). The sector expanded by 28,000 jobs overall, with the biggest gains in home healthcare services (12,000 jobs) and physicians’ offices (7,000). However, jobs in nursing care...
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is revising the NPDB Guidebook to incorporate legislative and regulatory changes adopted since its last edition, including the merger of the NPDB with the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank. The revised Guidebook will offer...
The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) has reversed an earlier directive and will permit members to treat male patients for sexually transmitted infections and to screen men for anal cancer. ABOG last week eased restrictions it had instituted in September, according to The...
With the rise in laparoscopic surgery for many common surgical procedures, some in healthcare are concerned that surgeons may eventually lose proficiency for open procedures, writes Sekptical Scalpel in a recent guest blog for Physicians Weekly. Other open operations have been done...
The draft of the next National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guide is available for comment through early next year. Some things have changed since the last edition was printed—for starters, the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank has been merged into the NPDB, although this merger...
When emergency rooms in rural areas see very sick or badly injured children, bringing in a pediatric critical care specialist by videoconference to help with treatment could prevent errors, a new study suggests. Researchers found rural ER physicians made medication errors—such as giving the...
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) praised CMS changes that would expand coverage of telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries starting next month. “The proposed new rules, while incremental, represent another step toward integrating the use of telecommunications technology into...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 47
The evolution of healthcare has brought changes to career tracks and staff levels—some good, some not. CareerCast, an employment website, predicts that implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will lead to hiring for healthcare professionals in the very near future. CareerCast’s...
