Delegates to the American Medical Association's (AMA) House of Delegates criticized the JCAHO for not heeding the input of physicians in adopting new standards, and sounded the alarm on standards they view as undermining physician autonomy, at the group's policymaking meeting in Las Vegas in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 46
In many medical staff organizations, physician leaders are finding that old categories don't fit new realities of how physicians and other practitioners relate to the hospital and participate in medical staff organization activities.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 46
The workload of Canadian general and family practitioners (GP/FP) under age 55 has declined in the past decade while the workload of GP/FPs over age 55 has increased, relative to their same-age peers 10 years prior, according to a recent study. Changing demographics of Canadian GP/FPs, including...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 45
Last week, I was working with one of our Medical Staff Institute clients (Marshall Medical Center in Placerville, CA) and happened to see an article that Marshall's medical staff coordinator wrote for the California Association Medical Staff Services.
The article made me laugh out loud,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 45
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) hopes to ease license portability for physicians practicing across state lines, using grants from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to improve the way medical boards share physician data, according to a report in American Medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 44
As medical staff organizations all over the country prepare to make committee assignments that take effect on January 1, take time to thoroughly evaluate the effectiveness of your current committees.
