Telepsychiatry is much more accepted now than it was a few years ago, according to Jack Cahalane, PhD, MPH, chief of the general adult service line and director of telepsychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)...
This series was designed to offer a guide to medical staff leaders, MSPs, and anyone else in an organization that is dealing with the fundamental shift in the relationship between medical staff and health system as the latter increasingly becomes the employer of choice for many physicians.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 4
As hospitals diversify their medical staffs and contend with mounting regulatory efforts to ally payment and performance, interdisciplinary collaboration has emerged as a major driver of financial health, medical staff stability, and care quality.
Concurrent or overlapping surgery is not new; however, there are relatively few regulations or policy statements from regulatory agencies or professional bodies that specifically address this issue, other than those from CMS concerning reimbursement. Because of this lack of guidance, healthcare...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 4
Do you remember the movie Groundhog Day? That's what it felt like to attend 15 medical staff department meetings a month, listening to the same quality and administrative reports over and over (and over) again. What's more, I was one of a dwindling few who toughed out these redundant events on a...
