The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) hopes to ease license portability for physicians practicing across state lines, using grants from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to improve the way medical boards share physician data, according to a report in American Medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 44
As medical staff organizations all over the country prepare to make committee assignments that take effect on January 1, take time to thoroughly evaluate the effectiveness of your current committees.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 44
Physicians are burned out, stressed out, and they’ve just about had it with the current state of healthcare, according to new findings of the 2006 American College of Physician Executives Physician Morale Survey.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 44
The Joint Commission, in their 2007 standards for the Medical Staff, have introduced a new concept - that of Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE). Although the requirements related to this concept do not go into effect for survey purposes until January 1, 2008, many medical staff...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 43
The American Hospital Association (AHA), in a letter to the accrediting body on Oct. 23, expressed support for the revisions to standard MS.1.20, but requested edits to element of performance (EP) 27, and urged the JCAHO to allow hospitals two to three years to be in compliance.