As hospital and health systems examine how to improve the patient experience, one prominent constituency increasingly is not being considered to lead the effort: physicians.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 22
Hospitals can’t survive without doctors who have a real stake in the hospital’s success. Most doctors can’t survive in small private practice. But the obvious way to mesh their interests—physician employment by hospitals or practice acquisitions—is losing its luster in many corners, so a new...
Emergency department healthcare workers in one hospital spent an average of 12 minutes per hour browsing Facebook, and use of Facebook increased as patient volumes and acuity increased, according to a study in the May issue of Journal of Medical Internet Research. University of Florida...
Clinical integration, the advancement of physician-hospital collaboration to increase quality and decrease costs, is harder than it looks. The impending pay-for-value world we are rapidly entering requires that physicians lead clinical integration to achieve success.
Nighttime intensivist staffing had no significant benefits on ICU or hospital length of stay, according to a study recently published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. In a yearlong study, researchers surveyed more than 1,500 patients admitted...
As we break for a long weekend and the unofficial start of summer, I want to tell you about a couple of items on the Credentialing Resource Center roster.
First, we’ll be offering you the chance to weigh in on a benchmarking report on fluoroscopy privileging policies. This...
