The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors has approved charters for two new advisory committees required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The PCORI Advisory Panel on Rare Disease and the Advisory Panel on Clinical Trials will begin meeting next spring...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 45
Today, the majority of U.S. medical schools have at least one student-run free clinic—a clinic almost completely staffed, operated, and led by medical students—under their auspices. However, these clinics raise some potential issues, such as patient care that is less efficient and less informed...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 44
Twelve Minnesota nurses who since 2010 are licensed to practice despite having either stolen narcotics on the job, fraudulently obtained prescriptions, or practiced while impaired by drugs or alcohol, a Star Tribune examination of more than 1,000 Minnesota Board of Nursing disciplinary...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 11
Having a competent, engaged chief of staff (aka medical staff president, medical staff chairman) is a key factor in a medical services professional's job satisfaction. It goes beyond liking the individual on a personal basis. The physician leader whom the medical staff services...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 40
We may think that a leader who says “I don’t know” may no longer inspire confidence and may lose the support of his or her troops. However, these words may provide inspiration and motivate teams to perform even better, writes Kevin R. Campbell, MD, FACC, in his October 7 blog post.
In a recent article, we discussed some of the compliance issues that may arise when attempting to implement an FPPE/OPPE process within a laundry list or fragmented privileging system, even when it includes both core/bundle privileging and/or modified laundry list privileging.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 35
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia currently allow nurse practitioners (NP) to work autonomously, but a bill to add California to the list has failed in the Legislature amid intense lobbying against it by the California Medical Association (CMA) and other powerful physician groups,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 9
I am addressing this article to recruiters, physician development professionals, CEOs, and others who bring physicians to a hospital. My plea is simple: Listen to the little things that a credentialing professional picks up on and use that information before deciding to bring a...
In its simplest form, collaboration means working with others. A slightly expanded version implies two or more people working jointly toward a common goal. So why is collaboration such a struggle for physicians? Medical education has generally fostered a culture of the rugged individualist by ...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 34
Nonprofit hospitals had a strong balance sheet in fiscal year 2012, but profitability metrics were down compared with FY 2011, according to the Moody’s Investors Service annual medians report. For the first time since FY 2008, Moody’s found expenses outpaced revenue in nonprofit hospitals and...
