Editors have proofreaders. H&R Block's claim to fame is its ability to find holes in your tax documentation that will earn you extra money. Even house painters stand back and check each other's work to make sure they didn't miss a spot. So doesn't it stand to reason that...
Two patients arrive in the ED with influenza during an outbreak. One is a 75-year-old man with several other chronic conditions and the other is a 45-year-old woman with three children. Who gets the last ventilator? Is it the woman because she is younger and has three children...
Electronic medical records (EMR), smartphones, texting, e-mail, remote access-all of these innovations have hit the healthcare sector with force over the past 10 years. For some physicians, EMRs enable them to work more quickly and keep better notes; for other physicians, it...
The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) was created to provide immunity from monetary damages to hospitals and individual practitioners participating on medical peer review committees. HCQIA also created the National Practitioner Data Bank.
You've identified sources of data, analyzed trends, formatted the results into easy-to-read ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) scorecards, and disseminated those scorecards to practitioners. Now what?
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 30
It's not necessary to include specific language to protect disabled physicians in the medical staff bylaws because the ADA covers all the bases, says Linda Ford, CPCS, CPMSM, director of medical staff services at Dameron Hospital in Stockton, CA. In addition, a hospital's HR policy often covers...
