Florida's Amendment 7, or the "Patients' Right to Know About Adverse Medical Incidents Act," continues to flex its muscle in cases involving negligent credentialing, making additional medical records discoverable. Previous cases have already shown Amendment 7 to be self-...
Two-thirds of physicians are requesting to be employed by hospitals and health systems, according to the HealthLeaders Media report Physician Employment: The Collaborative Care Disconnect. Another HealthLeaders Media report, 2011 Physician-Hospital Alignment Survey, reveals...
In the medical setting, electronic devices are supposed to help improve communication between physicians and various individuals and functions in the hospital.
As anyone who works in an ED knows, long wait times are not an ED-specific issue. Most of the time, long wait times in the ED aren't due to the numbers of patients being seen in the ED, but rather to the patients who have been admitted to the hospital through the ED and are waiting for a bed to...
Most of us are familiar with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. The organization's website states that it is "... committed to bringing quality medical care to people in crisis regardless of their race, religion, or political affiliation."
An Ohio Court of Appeals ruled statements made by a hospital's chief medical officer (CMO) that were secretly recorded by a decedent's family were not protected under peer review, affirming the decision of the trial court.
