A recent national poll conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health found that about 90% of Americans incorrectly believe Ebola can be spread through the air if an infected person sneezes or coughs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
Figure 1, a photo sharing app that allows healthcare professionals to share pictures of their patients with each other and medical students for educational purposes will be launched across Western Europe by the end of the year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
Following a data breach in August in which Chinese hackers stole 4.5 million patient records, Community Health Systems (CHS) now faces a class action lawsuit brought by one of those patients
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
“Like good police work, good medicine depends on deliberate, inefficient, plodding, expensive repetition. No system of data management will ever replace it.”
- Abigail Zuger, MD, discusses the disadvantages of relying on electronic medical records in a...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
With a second healthcare worker at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas testing positive for Ebola, I’m sure you’ve been thinking about the preparedness of your own facilities to handle a possible case. The CDC recently announced several...
If it passes in November, a California ballot measure would make the state the first in the nation to require drug testing for physicians. The requirement is part of Proposition 46 and represents a new twist in a decades-old fight to raise the cap for some damages in medical malpractice...
