The healthcare sector is experiencing a wave of consolidations with a significant uptick in hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions. This trend, driven by the quest for operational efficiencies, market expansion, and technological integration, has added work for medical staff...
Airlines and aviation have often been held up as standards for safety, but can what they do apply to hospitals, clinics, labs, and other healthcare organizations? This is Part 2 of an interview with Jeffrey Salvon-Harman, MD, CPE, CPPS, vice president at the Institute for...
Airlines and aviation have often been held up as standards for safety, but can what they do apply to hospitals, clinics, labs, and other healthcare organizations? Every day, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) provides service to more than 45,000 flights...
There are many benefits to utilizing telemedicine services, including increased patient access, enhanced reach of healthcare services, improved continuity of care and case management, higher patient satisfaction, and reduced patient risk of contracting communicable infectious diseases (because...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 10
To assist organizations in improving their credentialing and privileging processes, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has released an updated version of its Credentialing and Privileging Toolkit.
If a patient attempts to hang himself on a door, it doesn’t mean all the doors of that type in the hospital have to be replaced, says CMS. Instead, look for the failures that allowed that patient to act when and how he did.
