The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) stepped up HIPAA enforcement in a big way this year. The agency handed down more than $5 million in HIPAA settlement fines in one week in March, and in July reached a HIPAA violation settlement with Advocate Health Care in Illinois that carried a $5.55 million...
There should be very few times when a medical staff needs to deny an application for privileges. For the most part, the physician and other licensed independent practitioner applicants are practitioners who have excellent records and will continue to deliver high quality in their ongoing patient...
In 2011, The Joint Commission published an OPPE/FPPE-focused Standards BoosterPak, in which it pointed to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s core competencies as a potential framework for evaluating practitioners who are credentialed and privileged through the...
Nearly half of physicians responding to the American Medical Association’s digital health survey reported being highly enthusiastic for new digital health innovations. These digital tools, however, must improve workflow and efficiency if they are to be adopted into clinical practice. The survey...
