Earn continuing education units at the 2020 CRC Virtual Event! This training event has been approved for credits by NAMSS and the ACCME. Held...Read More »
Yale New Haven Hospital has developed a two-step assessment process for all clinicians who are at least 70 years old and seeking reappointment to...Read More »
The bedrock of the medical staff due process manual is a federal statute named the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA). As with...Read More »
Last week, Medscape released its annual Physician Compensation Report for 2020. The report’s data was collected prior to February 10, 2020 and...Read More »
Communication is the establishment of a relationship where one person’s actions, thoughts, feelings, or intentions prompt a response by another...Read More »
U.S. lawmakers are hoping to get green cards to physicians and nurses as soon as possible. A bill introduced this week by House Democrats would...Read More »
A powerful tool for managing physician performance is the physician performance pyramid that was developed by the late Howard Kirz, MD, at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Kirz for many years participated in teaching the “Managing Physician Performance in Organizations” course at the...
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a second round of regulatory waivers and rule changes built to add...Read More »
If organizations merely address legalities in their contracts with physicians and fail to define expectations, they almost guarantee that the...Read More »
