Innovation is a favorite buzzword in healthcare. There are any number of vendors and consultants lining up to sell you a toolkit, seminar, or some other widget to make your organization more “innovative.”
From advanced practice professionals to telemedicine providers, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Overcoming Competence Assessment Challenges will walk you through every step of collecting adequate performance data to assess practitioner competence. This book addresses many of the common...
A program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville is making significant inroads in helping physicians improve the way they practice medicine or change behaviors after patients complain about them, either because of their actions or their clinical work. If they are having trouble...
The 21st annual National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week is just ahead, from November 3-9. In honor of all that MSPs do, HCPro is offering you and your colleagues a 20% discount on all of our medical staff and credentialing products from November 4 to 8. Visit the HCMarketplace...
A key element to the physician credentialing and privileging process is querying the NPDB, a step that has become standard practice whenever a credentialing committee is considering a new candidate or an existing physician is renewing privileges.
A Supreme Court decision handed down in June offers greater protections for physician employers that face retaliation claims, effectively discouraging physicians from bringing forth frivolous claims related to discrimination-a ruling that could impact the way healthcare facilities deal with...
