The nursing profession is in an upheaval. Nurses want more opportunities to learn alongside physicians, in classrooms and in direct patient care settings with more and longer residency programs in hospitals.
Over the past several years, healthcare quality has come under increased scrutiny. In 2001, the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report Crossing the Quality Chasm highlighted the lack of consistency in the quality of care in the American healthcare system. The IOM report showed...
Radiologist Richard Chesbrough, MD, entered into a contract with Visiting Physicians Association (VPA) to interpret images created by VPA's technologists during in-home visits.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 42
On-time starts and case volume are two popular metrics that help to measure a physician’s performance in the ASC setting, according to Sandy Berreth, the administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn. In an article by Becker’s ASC Review, Berreth states that whether ASCs use...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 41
An article published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine calls attention to the stagnant growth in labor productivity in the healthcare industry over the past 20 years.
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