The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) has released new standards for OPPE and FPPE for critical access hospitals and acute care hospitals. Effective January 1, 2015, the medical staff is required to develop a process for evaluation of practitioners who have been granted...
Many medical staffs are not prepared for an aging physician population, but help is on the way! Join us for Practicing Medicine Longer: Legal and Clinical Considerations for an Aging Physician Population, a webcast to be held Tuesday, March 11, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m....
The Joint Commission is seeking input on proposed requirements addressing the qualifications and competency for radiologists who provide diagnostic computed technology (CT) services in the ambulatory care, hospital, and critical access hospital programs. Under MS.06.01.03, EP 10, hospitals...
CMS’ Physician Compare website is intended to assist patients in finding the "best" providers based on reported performance measures. Will the addition of quality measures to the Physician Compare website be useful in the credentialing/privileging process—if not now, then perhaps down the line?...
Quality measures have been added to Physician Compare, a website that helps patients search for information about physicians and other healthcare professionals, CMS announced last week. Sixty-six group practices and 141 accountable care organizations (ACO) now have quality data publicly...
Scribes or clinical information managers (CIM) provide assistance with provider documentation while increasing physician and practitioner satisfaction and improving productivity. Scribes are trained to provide real-time, point-of-care documentation whereby the scribe is physically present in the...