“The drive to reduce readmissions is a noble one. But we have to be realistic too. With an ageing population, this issue is going to remain at the forefront.”
- Suneel Dhand, MD, discusses reducing readmission in a blog post on...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 1
For those of you who have not already registered for the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium, I’d like to let you know the early bird discount has been extended to Friday, January 30. For more information about the symposium or to register,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 1
During a recent webcast, "Medical Staff Governance Documents: The Increasing Importance of Contemporary Bylaws," Todd Sagin, MD, JD, offered guidance for differentiating among rules, regulations, policies, and bylaws. Following are questions and answers from this webcast.
For the next several months, we will design an actual OPPE system looking at different metrics of physician performance. There is no regulatory or accreditation mandate as to what must be in an OPPE system; the only requirement from The Joint Commission and Healthcare Facilities Accreditation...
Medical scribing has emerged in response to the introduction of the EMR into clinical practice. Medical practices, hospitals, and emergency departments hire scribes to mitigate the inevitable slowdown created by providers who are not adept at typing or navigating computer systems. According to...
Editor's note:Militsa Ruiz, CPCS, vice president of software integration at CredLink and president/CEO of Cambridge Verification worked with a hospital in Costa Rica to set up...
