With the NPDB's Continuous Query reports, organizations get constant updates on practitioners, rather than the traditional process of querying the NPDB upon initial appointment and at reappointment.
On September 25, the State of Minnesota District Court, Fifth District, ruled that Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center's medical staff bylaws are not a binding contract between the medical staff and hospital administration and that the administration can unilaterally amend...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has given the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) a third grant to continue its work to improve license portability and reduce regulatory barriers to telemedicine.
The California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, reversed a trial court decision and held that a hospital's institutional review board (IRB) is a medical staff committee and is therefore exempt from discovery under California's statutes.
