In the past few years there has been a clear transition within the healthcare landscape. Regulatory and accreditation organizations are placing much more focus on quality and patient safety. The recent ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable...
A white paper from the AHA's Physician Leadership Forum identifies communication and systems-based practice as the two weakest core competencies for physicians. Surprise? Not really.
Back in the "old days," physicians who practiced in the community also practiced in the hospital, so defining who belonged in the active category was a breeze. But with the advent of hospitalists, medical staff categories have blurred, and it's beginning to affect which...
In the past few years there has been a clear transition within the healthcare landscape. Regulatory and accreditation organizations are placing much more focus on quality and patient safety. The recent ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable...
For many physicians, their first experience with the state medical board is filling out paperwork, popping it in the mail, and waiting patiently for their licenses to be delivered in return. If a physician has a second experience with the medical board, it is usually for a...
The guiding coalition at Better Times Hospital has revisited its original proposition, called 3-6-9. The original vision included three medical staff committees (the medical executive committee [MEC], credentials committee, and a single multispecialty peer review committee); six...
