Every year, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) sets a specific quota regarding the number of opioid pills that drugmakers can produce in the United States. This quota is based on data collected from both the FDA and drugmakers. However, the DEA recently proposed a rule that would prevent...
As the need for increased healthcare services becomes more widespread in even the most remote parts of the country, providers continue to look for the most cost-efficient way to fill that need.
Yet the solution now being adopted isn’t to make hospitals bigger—instead, facility operators...
Kristine Kirstein, MHA, helped reinvigorate the onboarding process at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. She says the following four steps helped the organization streamline the practitioner onboarding process:
Established a biweekly
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Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 10
Sharing peer review information between healthcare organizations is essential to help medical staffs determine practitioners' competence and make informed privilege-granting decisions. However, medical staffs can find themselves facing legal challenges if the disclosure process is done
Medical staff policies that require practitioners to sign releases before they disclose information to a requesting hospital are designed to protect an institution against lawsuits. But in the case of disclosing a practitioner’s...
