The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) has reversed an earlier directive and will permit members to treat male patients for sexually transmitted infections and to screen men for anal cancer. ABOG last week eased restrictions it had instituted in September, according to The...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 12
Do ambulatory setting and hospital privileging requirements need to match? Who can assess the competence of a practitioner when he or she is the only one with knowledge of a given specialty? In the final installment of the three-part webcast series "Overcoming Competency...
Over many decades, Toyota Motor Corporation developed a Lean production to standardize work and reap the benefit of improved methodologies that impact the quality of a product. The base aims of standardized work are to impact and improve customer satisfaction while eliminating wasted,...
Retail clinics are often staffed by nurse practitioners (NPs), whose services are regulated by state scope-of-practice regulations. By limiting NPs’ work scope, restrictive regulations could affect possible cost savings, according to a study in the November issue of Health Affairs....
The Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District, in an unpublished opinion, affirmed a trial court's dismissal of a lawsuit brought by an orthopedic surgeon claiming that a private hospital violated its bylaws and that its proceedings were fundamentally unfair in deciding to restrict the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 11
Chances are good that your medical services department has already been given the challenging task of assessing a telemedicine providers’ competency or for a practitioner who is using a new technology or procedure. If not, these tasks are likely on the horizon.