“Rather than viewing a ‘still image’ of the care experience, organizations need to capture ‘moving video’ feedback that more accurately reflects the post-discharge clinical situation for as many individual patients as possible.”
- Tom Scaletta, MD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 2
This week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider features a brief about a hospital forming its own police department. I feel like every few weeks I hear about another violent incident at a hospital. With this in mind, is forming a police...
Credentials Verification Organizations (CVOs) perform National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) queries as part of the credentialing process. CVOs have special responsibilities to the NPDB, according to the latest Data Bank News release. A CVO may be registered with the Data Bank either...
National and international medical congresses encourage attendees to “tweet” about the conferences on Twitter, but physicians are finding it’s not that easy to accurately share news from meetings on social media. Medical conferences often provide hashtags for attendees to use, to indicate their...
A physician’s ability to explain, listen, and empathize has a profound impact on a patient’s care, stated Nirmal Joshi, MD, chief medical officer for Pinnacle Health System, in The New York Times earlier this week. However, one survey found that two out of three patients are...
Primary care physicians (PCP) are more likely to recommend a career as a nurse practitioner (NP) than as a physician to qualified college students. In a sample of 505 PCPs, 66% said they would recommend a career as an NP, compared to just 56% who would recommend their own career, according...
