Unsurprisingly, integrating medical staffs across multiple hospitals in a system has numerous effects on the culture within each individual medical staff, although these effects tend to be overwhelmingly positive. When medical staffs are unified correctly, each staff can still maintain its local...
Medical staff officers have the responsibility to govern and oversee the administrative functions of the medical staff. In the past, the office of medical staff president or chief of staff was an honorary position that required little work—truth be told, most of that work was actually done by...
Despite considerable improvements in patient safety, an unacceptable number of medical errors still occur at the local and national level. That’s the finding of the report released in June by the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, a Boston-based advocacy group started in 2004 by the state...
More than 70% of heath data breaches in the past decade involved sensitive demographic or financial information, leaving 159 million people vulnerable to identity theft and fraud, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 9
A Massachusetts District Court (the “Court”) denied the motion to dismiss put forth by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, and Partners Healthcare System (collectively, “Defendants”). Defendants based the motion on the plaintiff’s failure to state...
This past July, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine unanimously passed two new rules aimed at further regulating overlapping surgeries to optimize patient safety in the operating room. As defined by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, overlapping surgery, sometimes...
