Physicians often depend on continuing medical education (CME) to learn about new tests and therapies, and CME is required for physician relicensing, recredentialing, and recertification. However, 75% of CME providers received support from commercial entities in 2011, which raises concerns about...
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) National Practitioner Data Bank will replace the Interface Control Document Transfer Program (ITP) with the Querying and Reporting XML Service (QRXS) on July 31, 2014. Users who currently query or report through the Data Bank website or...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 34
A bill to expedite license approvals for physicians who will practice in medically underserved areas passed the California Legislature last week and was headed for the governor’s desk. Assembly Bill 1288 requires the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 24
Institutions that notice diagnostic errors need to have a better way to notify physicians when their diagnoses are incorrect, researchers say, because internists’ overconfidence in their decisions may be hurting patient care. Even though they were right only 6% of the time and should have had...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 34
When bombs went off at the Boston Marathon on April 15, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka found himself dealing with the kind of the emergency few drills could ever prepare you for.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 34
Nonprofit hospitals had a strong balance sheet in fiscal year 2012, but profitability metrics were down compared with FY 2011, according to the Moody’s Investors Service annual medians report. For the first time since FY 2008, Moody’s found expenses outpaced revenue in nonprofit hospitals and...
