The Leapfrog Group’s fourth safety report card for general acute care hospitals, released Wednesday, shows little overall improvement in how well providers are preventing patient harm. A total of 2,539 hospitals were graded on 15 structural measures, such as whether the hospital has a full-time...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 41
Compensation for physician executives increased during the past two years, but at a much slower pace than five or six years ago, according to a recent survey. Cejka Executive Search’s 2013 Physician Executive Compensation Survey, which drew more than 2,300 physician-executive respondents,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 40
The federal sequester took a 2% bite out of Medicare reimbursements, and healthcare reform and other forces have led to lower inpatient volumes for many providers. Now hospitals are turning to outsourcing to save money, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. Traditionally, hospitals and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 39
Sixty wrong-patient/wrong-site/wrong-procedure sentinel events were reported during the first half of 2013, according to the October edition of The Joint Commission’s Perspectives newsletter. Other sentinel events near the top of the list were unintended retention of a foreign object and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 10
A range of regulatory changes have arrived-with more just around the corner. And now, acute care hospitals have another accrediting option to consider. In midsummer, the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) joined the ranks of DNV, the Healthcare Facilities...
In May 2011, CMS released its final rule on credentialing telemedicine providers. The rule allowed hospitals utilizing telemedicine services to credential through a "proxy" by relying on information from the distant site hospital during the credentialing and privileging process...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 36
For the seventh consecutive year, primary care physicians top the wish list for most hospitals, medical groups and other healthcare organizations, according to a release from healthcare consulting and recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins. Among the findings in the firm’s soon-to-be-released 2013...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 35
Only 245 cases of patient harm in surgeries using the Da Vinci robot system have been reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2000. The figure seems “very, very low” to Johns Hopkins University researchers, who have identified eight cases of patient harm or death that were...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 9
In the first installment of a three-part webcast series on overcoming competency assessment challenges, Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, senior consultant at the Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, Mass.; and Anne Roberts, CPCS, CPMSM, senior director of medical affairs at...
