Physician shortage. Important patient care need. Physicians seeking work-life balance or an alternative to retirement. All of these are reasons locum tenens practitioners are becoming more popular. Using these "placeholder" practitioners can be a great option, as long as you...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 1
With the NPDB's Continuous Query reports, organizations get constant updates on practitioners, rather than the traditional process of querying the NPDB upon initial appointment and at reappointment.
In May 2012, MSB reported on OpenNotes, a 12-month project that gives patients access to their medial notes. At the time, anecdotal evidence suggested that the project was a big hit, but the results published in the October issue of Annals of Internal Medicine prove it...
The California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, reversed a trial court decision and held that a hospital's institutional review board (IRB) is a medical staff committee and is therefore exempt from discovery under California's statutes.
On September 25, the State of Minnesota District Court, Fifth District, ruled that Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center's medical staff bylaws are not a binding contract between the medical staff and hospital administration and that the administration can unilaterally amend...