On Wednesday, July 9, HCPro hosted a webcast entitled "Assessing and Managing Clinically Suspect Practitioners: From Collegial Intervention to Corrective Action." During the 90-minute webcast, Todd Sagin, MD, JD, national medical director of Sagin Healthcare Consulting...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 8
Developing and implementing a criteria-based core privileging system is challenging and requires considerable effort, but the result will greatly benefit the organized medical staff and the healthcare organization.
Match data for 2014 show a modest increase in the primary care physician workforce, but the increase offers little redress to the primary care provider shortage, wrote Joanne Pohl, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANP; Debra Barksdale, PhD, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, CNE, FAANP, FAAN; and Kitty Werner, MPA, in a...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 8
A critical question in medicine will come before the U.S. Supreme Court this fall: How much power should physicians wield over their peers when the power to regulate also potentially could tamp down competition that benefits patients? The court has announced that on October 8, justices will...
Starting this week, nurse practitioners (NP) in Kentucky who have completed a four-year collaboration with a physician can prescribe routine medications without physician involvement, a major shift that could help improve consumers’ access to care, Kaiser Health News reports. Senate...
