During any screening test, there is a chance of so-called overdiagnosis—finding something that looks like cancer but isn’t, or a cancer that’s so small and slow-growing it would never cause a problem. In those cases, patients may get unnecessary biopsies, surgeries, radiation, or drugs that...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 42
A resident-led quality improvement incentive program significantly reduced unnecessary laboratory tests at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. In one year of study, neurosurgical trainees found a 47% reduction in testing, which led to a savings of $1.7 million in billable...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 42
The Leapfrog Group’s fourth safety report card for general acute care hospitals, released Wednesday, shows little overall improvement in how well providers are preventing patient harm. A total of 2,539 hospitals were graded on 15 structural measures, such as whether the hospital has a full-time...
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is asking for comments on proposed standards for its Program for Maintenance of Certification (MOC). These standards will provide a framework for member boards to use when developing their programs for MOC while allowing the flexibility to tailor...
Physician leaders are pressed for time. Give them the knowledge and tools to confidently and effectively carry out their medical executive committee (MEC) responsibilities and comply with accreditation standards.
The Medical Executive Committee Manual will help MEC members...
The Arizona Medical Board put patients at risk by failing to properly conduct background investigations on physicians applying for licenses after its executive director told staff to streamline the process, according to a report released last week.
An initiative to streamline multistate medical licensure for physicians is making progress, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) announced earlier this month. A newly appointed drafting team will use eight key consensus principles to shape the new system, which calls for a formal...
If the proposed affiliation between Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Medical Center makes it through New York state and federal scrutiny, it would join three hospital campuses, more than two dozen community sites, $500 million in annual revenues and 4,700 employees under the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 41
Compensation for physician executives increased during the past two years, but at a much slower pace than five or six years ago, according to a recent survey. Cejka Executive Search’s 2013 Physician Executive Compensation Survey, which drew more than 2,300 physician-executive respondents,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 41
The ability to provide high-quality healthcare is a primary driver of job satisfaction among physicians, whereas obstacles to quality patient care are a source of stress, according to a recent study by the RAND Corporation. Researchers gathered data from 30 physician practices in six states,...
