Prescribing mistakes are still as prevalent in some outpatient electronic prescribing systems as manual systems, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
Medical Staff Briefing (MSB) provides the strategies and updated information medical staff leaders and medical staff services professionals need to confidently meet their daily challenges. This monthly resource provides time-saving tools, expert advice, and...
In May, CMS issued final rules regarding the manner in which hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAH) can privilege telemedicine providers, laying to rest a long debate.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a proposed rule that would exempt law enforcement data pertaining to ongoing investigations in the NPDB. Barring investigative information from disclosure means that hospitals and medical staffs would not be...
Current medical staff leaders may not realize that one of their primary responsibilities is finding physicians on the medical staff who have the ability to lead but whose latent talents may not have come to the notice of current officers, nominating committees, or hospital administrators. This...
