Advances in healthcare delivery continue at an exponential speed. Technologies, procedures, and treatments that were not even dreamed of several years ago are now realities. It is certain that, as a medical staff leader, you will be faced with the inevitable request from one of your medical...
Developed and implemented by Boston Medical Center, a new EHR-based tool screens patients for unmet social needs, also referred to as social...Read More »
Each year, large numbers of physicians seek to return to practice after an extended voluntary absence from patient care. Others have never left practice but are requesting to expand/change their scope of practice and refresh skill sets they have not used in several years. Returning to practice...
Because residency training slots funded by Medicare have remained capped since 1996, many healthcare facilities are either forced to turn away...Read More »
Per most states’ hospital licensure requirements, medical staff membership and clinical privileges are granted through processes outlined by the...Read More »
At the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), the burnout rate in the internal medicine division is approximately 13%, which is significantly...Read More »
CMS published the FY 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule on April 23, and the rule’s proposal significantly alters...Read More »
"At the end of the day practicing medicine is an act of service. Each day, big or small, I try to do at least one thing to make a patient’s life...Read More »
