The movement of care from the inpatient setting and the rise of clinically integrated networks (CIN) have resulted in an increasing need to push the evaluation of physician quality into these new territories. The challenge is to understand how to systematically measure and evaluate physician...
A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hired physicians and other healthcare providers that had adverse actions taken against them. GAO analyzed physicians, nurses,...
"Patients do better when they are taken care of by people who look like them."
- Mia Mallory, MD, associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Cincinnati medical school, discusses the need to increase the number of African-American medical school...
All healthcare organizations must comply with multiple regulatory and accreditation standards, but making sense of all those requirements is easier said than done. During this 90-minute webinar, expert speaker Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, will break down the credentialing standards of the five...
Todd Sagin, MD, JD: They are staff member but have no privileges. This is an opportunity to get familiar with NPDB Guidebook. The NPDB Guidebook states that regardless of whether someone holds privileges if they hold medical staff membership, must query NPDB every two years.
