During the last 20 years, healthcare employment has stayed on a steady, strong upward trajectory. But now that steady upward climb is showing signs of flattening out, according to a US News & World Report article last week. July jobs data showed healthcare added only 2,500 jobs, its...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 32
The American Medical Association (AMA), a number of other national provider associations, and 47 state medical societies are urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to preserve federal funding for state-based quality improvement organizations (QIOs). Some of the nation’s...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 32
Researchers at Kaiser Permanente have shown it's possible to automate collection of data from an electronic health record for public quality reporting. They've also proved that this automation saves money, compared to manual data abstraction. However, their paper in the Journal of the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 32
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging acute care organizations to invite their Congressional representatives—who are currently out for August recess—to visit their local hospitals. "Let them see your quality improvements, work to reduce readmissions, investments in health information...
Medicare will levy $227 million in fines against hospitals nationwide for the second round of the government’s campaign to reduce the number of patients readmitted within a month, according to federal records released last week. Medicare identified 2,225 hospitals that will have payments reduced...
Hospitals should conduct drug tests on all physicians and nurses, especially following an adverse event, and physicians and nurses should be ready to comply, according to New York University Langone Medical Center’s Director of the Division of Medical Ethics. In a MedPage Today article...
