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.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 24
Registration is now open for data submission to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database. Hospitals that have administered the AHRQ survey can now voluntarily submit their data.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 14
Nestled in the massive immigration bill that's being debated now in Congress are a handful of provisions that could ease the process that allows foreign-born physicians to practice in underserved areas across the United States. Sections dealing with revisions to the Conrad State 30 Program...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 24
Mandatory influenza vaccination as a condition of employment did not cause healthcare workers to flee from Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., according to a four-year analysis of vaccination rates. With the backing of hospital leadership, infection control and prevention...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 24
The American Hospital Association has voiced support for the Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act (S. 961/H.R. 36), legislation that would provide medical liability protections under the Federal Tort Claims Act to hospitals and physicians providing emergency care.
Members of the public are open to physician assistants and nurse practitioners playing a greater role in healthcare delivery, according to a recent Health Affairs study. Researchers analyzing the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Consumer Survey data for December 2011 to January...
