The 2019 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium will be held February 26-28 in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand. With so many credentialing, privileging, and medical staff leadership topics to cover, the Symposium has been expanded to 2.5 days and will feature a new provider enrollment track. Stay...
Physician recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins noticed an interesting trend in 2017: recruitment for specialists increased while recruitment for primary care physicians decreased. According to Merritt Hawkins' 25th Annual Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives, 74% of...
"... too many doctors-in-training, most of whom enter medical school as young and idealistic, get put in a deep hole before they even get into their work careers as full-fledged physicians."
It is no secret that many physicians struggle with EHRs, particularly when they are first implemented at a hospital. In fact, EHRs are one of the highest stressors reported in group surveys of physicians. When physicians at Southern California Permanente Medical Group...
During the past 15 years, physician leaders have often expressed a desire to make peer review more positive. Key practices that allowed for this shift were the increased standardization of case review and the use of aggregate data that increased the inherent fairness of peer review, recognizing...
Physicians are making gains in the fight against the opioid epidemic, according to a recent report released by the American Medical Association. These gains are largely a result of the concerted efforts of physician leaders to prescribe opioids less frequently and to utilize state prescription...
