Just who is entitled to be called “doctor” in hospitals, medical offices and other clinical settings is being considered by the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners. Under a proposal before the board, physician assistants (PA) with doctoral degrees would be barred from using the title...
Healthcare organizations of all kinds are being routinely attacked and compromised by increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, according to a new study by Norse, a Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm, and SANS, a security research institute. Networks and Internet-connected devices in hospitals...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 8
Medicine lags behind the law by several decades, but it is proceeding down the same path, wrote Richard Gunderman MD, PhD, and Mark Mutz in a recent opinion story in TheAtlantic. Rankings are playing an increasing role in how medical schools and hospitals assess their performance...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 8
The latest batch of online time-wasters offer several questions, and your answers determine which celebrity/state/car/dessert is “really you.” Yesterday I saw a variation—it was an opportunity to discover which Winter Olympic sport most closely matched your office or department. If your answer...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 8
Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization with more than 300,000 members and supporters nationwide, last month issued comments on the HRSA’s proposed changes to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook. In a letter posted on the organization’s website, authors Alan Levine,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 8
“Is it possible today to practice medicine in the U.S. after one year of residency or a stand-alone internship?” The answer to this question is yes—in 37 states for DOs and 33 states for MDs who graduated from U.S. medical schools, according to the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB)....
