New research by the Center for Personalized Education for Physicians (CPEP) has corroborated several key factors associated with poor physician performance in prior studies. These factors include increasing age and solo practice, among others. However, CPEP's retrospective analysis...
The Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program's latest scope of work, which gets underway this month, has some notable results to follow. During the three-year program period that just ended, hospital readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries declined by 13% in QIO...
"The boom in osteopathy is striking. In 1980, there were just 14 schools across the country and 4,940 students. Now there are 30 schools, including state universities in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia, and Michigan, offering instruction at 40 locations to more than 23,000...
Although telemedicine has the potential to make access to care simpler and easier, healthcare experts and telemedicine advocates still have concerns that regulatory obstacles are preventing the industry from reaching its full potential, while raising legal questions for both...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment to a hospital facing claims of racial discrimination from a physician. The Court ruled that the physician failed to...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 8
During a brainstorming session at the Massachusetts Association of Medical Staff Service's Annual Education Conference in May, participants were asked how they dealt with the problem of physicians not providing documentation in a timely manner. The following solutions were offered...
