Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Medical Staff Briefing, December 2013

December 1, 2013

Bringing patients and providers together

International organization improves communication by inviting patients to the table

Communication-whether among physicians, between physicians and nurses, or between physicians

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Credentialing Resource Center Digest

Staff, visitors sue Nevada hospital in TB case

November 22, 2013

Eight employees, former patients and visitors have filed a negligence lawsuit seeking damages from a Las Vegas hospital where they say they were exposed to a woman and at least one newborn baby with tuberculosis. The civil lawsuit filed Monday in Nevada state court alleges that administrators at...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest

CRC blog features a ’yearly rant’

November 22, 2013

If you haven’t visited the Credentialing Resource Center website recently, you missed last week’s...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest

ECFMG pilots medical elective exchange system

November 22, 2013

The Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) is pilot testing an international partnership that aims to enhance and simplify the process of medical elective exchanges for medical schools and students worldwide. Using the Global Education in Medicine Exchange (GEMx) system,...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest

New AMA policies address medical residency

November 22, 2013

During the American Medical Association (AMA) interim meeting this week, members of the AMA House of Delegates adopted two policies to address the changing nature of U.S. medical residencies. One of the new policies asks the AMA to study the effect of ever-increasing Match participants against...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest

Former N.J. physician sentenced for billing fraud

November 22, 2013

A U.S. District Court judge in Newark, N.J., this week sentenced a former physician to six and a half years in federal prison for fraudulently diagnosing patients with heart ailments and ordering them to undergo unnecessary tests. The physician reportedly defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and private...

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