Accountable care organizations (ACO) are touted as a way to lower Medicare costs and reward organizations for providing team-based quality patient care. Results have been mixed so far (see sidebar, p. 3), but entities continue to launch or join ACOs for several reasons. For many, it's...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 12
Editor's note: The following excerpt is adapted from the Medical Executive Committee Manual by William F. Mills, MD, MMM, CPE, FACPE, FAAFP, and Mary J. Hoppa, MD, MBA. To order or for more information, visit www.hcmarketplace....
Communication—whether among physicians, between physicians and nurses, or between physicians and patients—remains central to the ongoing discussion of quality improvement in hospitals and how to build physician ownership and involvement.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 12
Do ambulatory setting and hospital privileging requirements need to match? Who can assess the competence of a practitioner when he or she is the only one with knowledge of a given specialty? In the final installment of the three-part webcast series "Overcoming Competency...
Eight employees, former patients and visitors have filed a negligence lawsuit seeking damages from a Las Vegas hospital where they say they were exposed to a woman and at least one newborn baby with tuberculosis. The civil lawsuit filed Monday in Nevada state court alleges that administrators at...
During the American Medical Association (AMA) interim meeting this week, members of the AMA House of Delegates adopted two policies to address the changing nature of U.S. medical residencies. One of the new policies asks the AMA to study the effect of ever-increasing Match participants against...
