Physicians who take extended leaves have limited options to help bring them back up to speed to practice. Whether they take time off to raise children, care for family members, or return from retirement, physicians are often asked to prove they are competent to see patients again.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 25
A jury ordered an anesthesiologist and her practice to pay $500,000 after a patient’s phone recorded the surgical team mocking him while he was sedated for a colonoscopy.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 25
The American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate recently published the results of a survey looking into hospitals’ practices to engage patients and their families. The survey included 25 key practices and asked hospitals to report which ones they had adopted...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 25
“Our goal from the get-go has been to turn people on to primary care, and to turn the ship in the other direction… Takes a long time to turn a ship, though.”
- Michael Rosenblum, MD, discusses the shrinking number of primary care physicians in a...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 25
HCPro would like to offer a medical staff professional (MSP) e-learning library. These e-learning courses for credentialing and privileging would allow MSPs to complete training modules to improve their skills or learn new ones. Course topics could include credentialing...
To make case review during meetings efficient, all initial review needs to occur outside of the meeting. If a review has not been completed prior to the meeting, it should not go on the agenda, and if it’s not on the agenda, the committee doesn’t discuss it. The committee might waste time...
