Every peer review committee member must be aware of the ethical and legal issues they may face when carrying out their committee responsibilities and activities. In most states, laws protect peer review activities, but the committee and its members must still take precautions to maintain that...
Physician groups are hailing the recent ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court that found a hospital's medical staff has the legal standing under state law to sue and be sued, and that the medical staff bylaws constitute an enforceable contract between a hospital and members of...
Credentialing is not a static process and will constantly evolve into a more efficient and supportive process, says Hugh Greeley, one of the featured speakers at the 2015 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium. Below, Greeley explains how studying the history of credentialing can...
Physician engagement is vital to a hospital's or system's success. In one hospital system studied by research and analytics firm Gallup, engaged physicians gave the hospital an average of 3% more outpatient referrals and 51% more inpatient referrals than physicians who were not engaged or...
Brian Clement, director of the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida, has been ordered to stop practicing medicine without a license and fined for representing himself as a medical doctor. Florida’s Department of Health says it has probable cause to believe the director of the Hippocrates...
