How many stacks of papers are currently on your desk? How much time do you spend searching through mounds of paper looking for one specific document? How much time and money does your department spend preparing and mailing documents each month? How much time do you spend filing papers, printing...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 3
The Fifth District Appellate Court of Florida (the “Court”) recently upheld a trial court’s decision that a meeting of a hospital’s medical executive committee (MEC) was protected by the state’s peer review privilege. The Court also affirmed the trial court ruling that a related general medical...
A case that will soon be heard by the Oregon Supreme Court may decide whether patients in the state can seek damages in medical malpractice lawsuits based on physicians’ actions that reduce the possibility of a better outcome, known as the “loss of chance” theory.
A case that will soon be heard by the Oregon Supreme Court may decide whether patients in the state can seek damages in medical malpractice lawsuits based on physicians’ actions that reduce the possibility of a better outcome, known as the “loss of chance” theory.
Granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians without fully verifying their credentials can put patients and healthcare organizations in danger?both clinically and legally.
With the rise of healthcare and services outside traditional hospital settings, outpatient...
