MSPs play a key role in protecting their facilities from risk and ensuring patient safety. However, there can be a disconnect among top staff as to who "owns" patient safety and who is most responsible for it, as the story below shows. The surveyed C-suite members and risk managers recognized...
Medical interns are spending a surprisingly small percentage of their time directly caring for patients, according to a study published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Read on to learn how medical interns spent the remainder of their time.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 17
A final rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has merged the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank and National Practitioner Data Bank, in a move to eliminate duplication of data.
By many accounts, it was a relatively quiet day in the Boston Marathon medical tent, just a few steps past the finish line. That all changed in about 30 seconds on Monday afternoon.
If there is a silver lining to be found amid the tragedy in Boston on Monday...
The Boston Marathon bombing serves as yet another tragic reminder that American healthcare must be prepared to deal with terrorist attacks that result in the injuries typical of the wide-ranging damage caused by explosive devices. ...
A coalition of hospital groups last week urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw a proposal that they said would prevent multihospital systems from integrating their medical staff. The...
