Citing reduced wait times and lower costs, a recent Ernst & Young survey of nearly 2,500 consumers found that more than 50% reported being comfortable contacting their physicians digitally and already use available technology to do so.
“You need to convince leaders that a dimension of culture needs to change at the top of the house before it really can change. And to do that, the organizational science would say you need a stimulus that upsets the status quo.”
The hospitalist profession has taken the healthcare industry by storm over the past 20 years as the fastest-growing specialty in the history of American medicine. The role of the hospitalist continues to emerge through different specialties, including family medicine, internal medicine,...
What would you like to see included in the following book: The Credentialing Resource Center’s Top Tools and Forms of 2018. This book would be a compilation of the CRC expert community’s favorite field-sourced materials, complete with helpful commentary on each chosen...
Last month, my column covered the evolution of peer review during the 20th century and some lessons learned from its successes and failures. To quickly summarize, the changes in medical staff structures and functions began to intertwine with a desire for better measurement of physician...
