In August, Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in Boston, began writing an Internet Web log ("blog") called "Running a Hospital." Recently, Levy has received a mixture of praise and criticism for publishing hospital infection rates on his blog.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 5
Assessments of physicians' competence should incorporate peer review based upon realistic performance standards, meaningful practice outcomes, and systems-based quality, writes a Canadian physician in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 4
Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) , one of three members of Congress who in 2006 requested an investigation of The Joint Commission from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), said last week that the recently released report confirmed a need for more government oversight of the accrediting agency and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 3
The investigative arm of Congress on Jan. 16 reported that The Joint Commission and its not-for-profit educational and consulting affiliate, Joint Commission Resources (JCR), have made progress in the past several years to prevent improper sharing of facility-specific information, though...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 2
Alex Zakharia, a Miami-Dade heart surgeon, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit for allegedly exaggerating his qualifications about his experience doing open-heart surgery while giving a deposition for the plaintiff in a Michigan malpractice case.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 50
A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician to death on Dec. 19, convicting them of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV/AIDS, in a re-trial ordered after a court reached the same verdict in 2004. European and American human rights and physician...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 49
Rather than providing accountability for quality, medical staff organizations (MSO) are often a hindrance to improving physician performance and patient safety, argue the authors of a perspective published December 5 by the journal Health Affairs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 48
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations released on Dec. 4 a list of draft goals and requirements that will be considered for potential inclusion in the 2008 National Patient Safety Goals. The National Patient Safety Goals, which are updated annually, are designed to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 47
The workload of Canadian general and family practitioners (GP/FP) under age 55 has declined in the past decade while the workload of GP/FPs over age 55 has increased, relative to their same-age peers 10 years prior, according to a recent study. Changing demographics of Canadian GP/FPs, including...
