Canada had a record 75,142 physicians last year and they earned $328,000 gross (CDN) on average, according to two new reports. The annual reports on physician supply and payments for both general practitioners and specialists were released last week by the Canadian Institute for Health...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 39
Primary care physicians and mid-level staff continue to be in high demand as healthcare organizations prepare for coordinated care and the Affordable Care Act. The Association for Staff Physician Recruiters’ 2013 In-House Physician Recruitment Benchmarking Report finds that nearly 70% of...
The National Practitioner Data Bank is conducting a satisfaction survey of eligible users to gauge the Data Bank’s usability, including its querying and reporting functions. The survey also seeks information on how Data Bank information is being used regarding healthcare practitioners. The...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) 2012 Annual Report shows an overall increase in the number of physicians and nonphysicians who participate in continuing medical education (CME). More than 24 million physicians and other healthcare professionals...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 10
A range of regulatory changes have arrived-with more just around the corner. And now, acute care hospitals have another accrediting option to consider. In midsummer, the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) joined the ranks of DNV, the Healthcare Facilities...
The Supreme Court of California reversed and remanded an appellate court's ruling that a hospital medical executive committee's (MEC) delegation of its authority to select the participants in a fair hearing to the hospital's governing body actually denied a physician a fair...
