Vermont’s lone representative in the U.S. House says he wants to make it easier for people to take advantage of telemedicine by electronically linking patients to physicians. Rep. Peter Welch’s Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2013 would also cover home-based video services for hospice care, home...
A key element to the physician credentialing and privileging process is querying the NPDB, a step that has become standard practice whenever a credentialing committee is considering a new candidate or an existing physician is renewing privileges.
With the restructuring of the Step 3 examination in 2014, the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) program will no longer require examinees to apply for Step 3 under the eligibility requirements of a specific medical licensing authority. Other Step 3 eligibility requirements—including a...
Val Jones, MD, founder and CEO of Better Health, summarized some interesting field research about locum tenens in a KevinMD blog earlier this week. Apparently there’s no love lost between hospital executives and...
An initiative to streamline multistate medical licensure for physicians is making progress, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) announced earlier this month. A newly appointed drafting team will use eight key consensus principles to shape the new system, which calls for a formal...
The Arizona Medical Board put patients at risk by failing to properly conduct background investigations on physicians applying for licenses after its executive director told staff to streamline the process, according to a report released last week.
