Practitioners have demanding schedules and do not have time to decipher encrypted messages. Medical staff leaders and MSPs should mitigate the risk of practitioners ignoring ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) reports by producing reports that engage their interest...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 11
The nursing profession is in an upheaval. Nurses want more opportunities to learn alongside physicians, in classrooms and in direct patient care settings with more and longer residency programs in hospitals.
Over the past several years, healthcare quality has come under increased scrutiny. In 2001, the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report Crossing the Quality Chasm highlighted the lack of consistency in the quality of care in the American healthcare system. The IOM report showed...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 42
On-time starts and case volume are two popular metrics that help to measure a physician’s performance in the ASC setting, according to Sandy Berreth, the administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn. In an article by Becker’s ASC Review, Berreth states that whether ASCs use...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 41
An article published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine calls attention to the stagnant growth in labor productivity in the healthcare industry over the past 20 years.