According to the AMA, nearly a quarter of physicians actively practicing in the United States in 2015 were age 65 or older. In a world where longer life spans and delayed retirement have become commonplace, this statistic is not particularly shocking, but it points to a question that hospital...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 4
Also, the leading causes of health data breaches, a hospital and cardiology group pays millions to settle kickback allegations, and a CMS initiative aims to allow patients to control their medical records data
Find out what’s happening in the world of federal healthcare regulations by...
Phishing emails and their viruses are used to obtain credit card numbers, usernames, passwords, and (in the case of hospitals) patient records and data. The spread of WannaCry ransomware in 2017 (which hobbled one-fifth of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service) was largely attributed to...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 4
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire (the “Court”) ordered a hospital to produce records of a committee’s investigation into a terminated nurse’s actions and patient care. The Court found that the hospital could not show that a privilege afforded by state law applied to the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 4
Are you aware that there is credentialing going on in your hospital—and it’s not in the medical staff department? If you are, you’re in the minority. Just like many are not aware that a medical staff services department (MSSD) exists, few people give a thought to all those “others” roaming the...
When the time comes to choose a medical field, primary care is often overlooked for what medical students and residents consider more glamorous specialties. Unfortunately, this can cause its true value to go ignored. By 2025, there will be a predicted primary care shortage of 12,500 to 31,100...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 4
The third largest health system in the United States, Providence St. Joseph Health System struggled with an issue common among health systems: how to bring together disparate data and develop one source of truth for provider data.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 4
How do you transition to a paperless credentialing process that enables document sharing throughout your health system, thus reducing rework, waste, and redundancy? How do you leverage your credentialing database to resolve data needs that are beyond the scope of credentialing to strengthen your...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 3
I’ve been asked many times over the years about the steps that I took in order to advance my career. I have been blessed with many opportunities to gain invaluable experience, learn and oversee a wide array of services and departments within a hospital setting, and work with some great teams...
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...
