In an effort to streamline the process for physicians to obtain medical licenses in multiple states, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) recently released the final draft of its Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
In an effort to streamline the process for physicians to obtain medical licenses in multiple states, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) recently released the final draft of its Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
The results are in for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s second Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture. The survey, designed to measure the culture of patient safety in outpatient medical offices, gauges staff and provider attitudes about patient...
The Nevada Supreme Court (the "Court") upheld, in an unpublished opinion, a lower court's dismissal of an anesthesiologist's lawsuit against MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas, because the Hospital has immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA)....
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 11
A conversion to core privileging is underway at MaineHealth, and the effort has spurred a drive to standardize privilege forms among the eight hospitals in the system. Now, a little more than a year into the process, the integrated healthcare delivery network has drafts of forms for three...
As MaineHealth and credentialing partner Synernet get standardized privilege sets ready to go, MSB spoke to Robert E. McArtor, MD, CMO of the eight-hospital system, about some of the keys to the success of this initiative. Among them are consensus, collaboration, and listening...
