Today’s MSPs are taking on larger volumes of work and scopes of responsibility than ever before, often without seeing equivalent gains in respect...Read More »
We continue our discussion on planning a move toward a just culture to improve patient safety. Last month we covered setting goals, educating the...Read More »
The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) has no provision or requirement for an appellate review mechanism. However, if your...Read More »
Payments from pharmaceutical companies to physicians was associated with increased prescribing of lower-value drugs, according to a study recently...Read More »
Brock Bordelon, MD, medical director at MDReview, answers the question "How do we convince physicians to take their turns serving on the peer...Read More »
The American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted new policies recently, including prevention of bullying among healthcare professionals and...Read More »
A study of Press Ganey surveys found that patients gave higher scores to their physicians if they shared the same race/ethnicity. Eighty-eight...Read More »
One of the most important roles of a hospital’s organized medical staff is to evaluate practitioners’ credentials and make recommendations to the...Read More »
Attribution of patient care for advanced practice professionals (APP) has the same implications as it does for physicians in regard to monitoring...Read More »
Although ransomware is not a new phenomenon, a recent increase in reported attacks, along with several well-publicized cases, have raised the...Read More »
