“The drive to deliver better coordinated care inevitably leads to greater vertical integration. Those organizations can be allowed as long as they are closely monitored by government regulators to ensure they don't abuse their market power.”
- Merrill Goozner...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 10
In past editions of Medical Staff Leader Insider I’ve featured stories about unlicensed individuals offering procedures and I think we can agree that the brief featured this week helps illustrate why this is so dangerous. Beyond publicizing...
Don't be left out! Join us as we bring MSPs and medical staff leaders together to discover innovative solutions to top medical staff challenges at the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, on March 12-13, 2015.
Regardless of how they frame the discussion, physicians who deliver bad news may be seen as less compassionate by their patients, a new study in JAMA Oncology suggests. Patients who watched videos of fictional interactions between practitioners and patients felt the physicians...
More new physicians entering the workforce are opting for jobs as locum tenens in hospitals, physician practices, and other provider sites, according to the 12th annual Survey of Temporary Physician Staffing Trends. Staff Care, a healthcare temporary staffing firm based in Irving, Texas,...
One of my college computer science instructors had a placard in her office that said, “Learning is often best disguised as something else.” I’ve been thinking of that saying often lately as MSPs discuss the credentialing lessons they’ve learned the hard way. Are there easier ways to learn...
