A recent national poll conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health found that about 90% of Americans incorrectly believe Ebola can be spread through the air if an infected person sneezes or coughs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
Figure 1, a photo sharing app that allows healthcare professionals to share pictures of their patients with each other and medical students for educational purposes will be launched across Western Europe by the end of the year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
Following a data breach in August in which Chinese hackers stole 4.5 million patient records, Community Health Systems (CHS) now faces a class action lawsuit brought by one of those patients
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
“Like good police work, good medicine depends on deliberate, inefficient, plodding, expensive repetition. No system of data management will ever replace it.”
- Abigail Zuger, MD, discusses the disadvantages of relying on electronic medical records in a...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
With a second healthcare worker at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas testing positive for Ebola, I’m sure you’ve been thinking about the preparedness of your own facilities to handle a possible case. The CDC recently announced several...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
CMS has reopened the submission period with a deadline of November 1 for hospitals and physicians to apply for an EHR meaningful use hardship exemption to avoid payment adjustments next year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
This month Massachusetts became the first state to require health insurers and hospitals to make real-time pricing for healthcare services readily accessible to consumers.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
The boards of Kindred Healthcare and Gentiva Health Services unanimously approved a deal that would create one of the country’s largest operator of long-term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and home health and hospice services, with an expected annual...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
“My answer when people ask me how to motivate doctors: Give them the tools they need to make the changes that will benefit their patients. Collaborate with them on coming up with solutions to your institution’s ailments. Allow them to come up with solutions and have skin in the game,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 41
