Prescribing mistakes are still as prevalent in some outpatient electronic prescribing systems as manual systems, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 26
When should physicians and patients become friends on Facebook? Only if they have a standing relationship outside of the office, according to Hospital Impact. Physicians should decline friend requests from patients they are...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 26
Staff at hospitals that choose active surveillance and patient isolation to prevent bug transmission must endure the hassle of gowning and gloving for each patient encounter. Important communication with the patient sometimes loses to more pressing healthcare needs. Members of the infection team...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 26
The physician shortage in the US and the rising cost of operating a practice is prompting more hospitals to retain physicians through employment agreements, according to consulting firm...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 26
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 25
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 25
Connecticut’s Office of Health Care Access (OHCA) has decided that three ophthalmologists do not have to provide emergency department call to Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 24
Five U.S. senators have asked the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate physician-owned distributorships, organizations that allow surgeons to profit from the medical devices they use on their patients.
