As 2020 launched, healthcare executives had no way of knowing the havoc a novel virus that had emerged in Wuhan, China, would wreak on the healthcare industry. By March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization acknowledged a pandemic was in progress, and COVID-19 began impacting the U.S....
On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order in support of the expansion of telemedicine services, particularly in rural areas. This order makes permanent the increased offering of telemedicine services necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the healthcare sector, a recent LocumTenens.com survey shows. The survey was conducted in June and highlights information collected from 940 healthcare professionals in 35 medical specialties. The survey features several key data points,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 7
With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has finally come of age. Like a lonely teenager who once struggled to make connections with a broader network of friends and was bound by strict parental controls, suddenly, telehealth has blossomed into the most popular kid in school by...
The U.S. health care system is famously resistant to government-imposed change. It took decades to create Medicare and Medicaid, mostly due to opposition from the medical-industrial complex. Then it was nearly another half-century before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. But the COVID-19...
Performing primary source verifications, credentialing and privileging practitioners, participating in committee meetings, ensuring practitioner competency, and safeguarding patient care are just a few of the crucial day-to-day tasks performed by MSPs. Under normal circumstances, these processes...
