Healthcare accounted for the largest share of publicly disclosed data breaches in 2020, according to a report recently released by cyber-security firm Tenable. To reach the conclusion in its 2020 Threat Landscape Retrospective, Tenable analyzed public breach disclosures from January to October...
The past 11 months have been challenging, exhausting, and endless for healthcare professionals across the globe, as Medical Staff Briefing (MSB) has covered extensively. What started as a novel virus in one city across oceans became a worldwide pandemic, creating a public health emergency in the...
We are currently seeking industry experts to speak at our upcoming conference, the National Provider Enrollment Forum, featuring a new credentialing and privileging track! The Forum will take place on September 21 and 22 at the Sheraton Nashville Grand Downtown...
One of the key challenges that low- and no-volume providers present is how to assess their competence when you have little or no data on their performance in your organization. Most medical staff leaders say it is difficult to get any information of real value from references today.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 2
The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle (the “Court”) granted in part and denied in part a defendant’s motion for summary judgment, finding that immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) cannot be applied when the information is...
