The United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio granted a protective order requested by Cleveland Clinic Health Systems (Cleveland Clinic) to prevent the disclosure of certain documents in an indemnity lawsuit it filed against a nurse and staffing company. The...
Thrombosis, sclerosis, embolism-it might not require conjugating verbs, but medical terminology is a language in itself, one that often creates a barrier between physicians and patients. When the patient also doesn't speak English, communicating becomes an even bigger obstacle.
The U.S. District Court in the Western District of New York denied a hospital's motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit brought by a female physician, who claimed the hospital and its personnel subjected her to sexual harassment and discrimination in violation of Title VII of...
Gone are the days when physicians could claim they were board eligible, even if they finished residency training 30 years ago. Effective January 1, the ABMS has put limits on the time between when a physician finishes residency training and when he or she passes the board...
The Arkansas Supreme Court recently opted not to recognize negligent credentialing as a cause of action in a medical malpractice case, going against the majority of other states and causing quite a stir within the medical community.
The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court judgment that affirmed the decision of Penrose-St. Francis Healthcare System to terminate a physician's privileges, also denying the physician's request to subpoena records from the peer review...
Better Times Hospital is in crisis. The medical staff is deeply rooted in a departmental structure that relies heavily on committees, and few physicians want to serve on them. Joe, the medical staff president, has just finished reading Leading Change by John Kotter and has...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 21, Issue 4
CMS recently approved the final language of the Joint Commission standards regarding credentialing and privileging telemedicine providers, making it easier for a hospital to utilize telemedicine services by allowing the hospital to use the credentialing and privileging...
In the medical setting, electronic devices are supposed to help improve communication between physicians and various individuals and functions in the hospital.
The United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, affirmed a district court's refusal to grant qualified immunity to a county-owned hospital's board members in a discrimination suit brought by three interventional cardiologists of Indian descent. The plaintiff cardiologists...
