“What we have seen in our work with physicians as we report data on their performance is something akin to watching someone go through the stages of grief,” wrote Robert Graham, MD, national program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 19
Three out of four physicians believe that fellow practitioners prescribe an unnecessary test or procedure at least once a week, according to a survey released last week. The most frequent reasons that physicians order extraneous—and costly—medical care are fears of being sued, the desire to be...
In recent years, more than a third of MSP Salary Survey respondents said their highest level of education was a high school diploma. However, In the 2014 edition, that percentage dropped dramatically, to 9.1%.
Was there a rush for college degrees during the past year? Probably not....
Thirty-four percent of rural hospitals and 32% of urban hospitals had at least one telehealth application currently in use, and rural and urban hospitals did not differ significantly in overall telehealth implementation rates, according to a Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Policy Brief....
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has identified 17 social and behavioral areas that should be addressed in all electronic health records (EHR) of patients to improve outcomes and advance public health research efforts. The IOM compiled the list as a guide for officials who are developing...
Most hospital policies regard the autopsy as dead since the mid-1970s, when The Joint Commission lifted its requirement that hospitals perform autopsies on 20% of inpatient deaths. Even teaching hospitals have reduced the number they do for training medical students. Rare is the hospital...
