A judge recently approved a $190 million settlement that John Hopkins has agreed to pay to settle claims that a gynecologist, Nikita Levy, secretly filmed and photographed patients during examinations
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 39
“Doctors need some quiet, down time, some time to think, to pay attention. We need to create our own boundaries between our personal and professional lives that are respected. We need to think we can get away, to regroup, have some quiet time for ourselves or with a patient, even for...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 39
Mark your calendars for March 12-13, 2015 for the return of the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. We have a great group of speakers lined up: Hugh Greeley; Todd Sagin, MD, JD; Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS;...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
Medical staffs are discovering their governance documents are inadequate for today’s care environment. These trusted documents may now fail to provide clear guidance, be noncompliant with accreditation standards, or create liability for the hospital. However, a full bylaws...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
According to the National Health Interview Survey, the number of Americans without health insurance fell by 3.8 million during the first quarter of the year, which represented an 8 percent decrease. Approximately 41 million people remain uninsured.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
A joint study conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Premier, Inc., found that redundant and unnecessary use of antibiotics may have cost U.S. hospitals $163 million, as well as increase risks to patient safety.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
In a survey of more than 20,000 physicians, the majority reported feeling overextended and hoped that steps would be taken to address the physician shortage.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
“Usability should be the driving quality of all health IT. Unless health IT functions in a way that makes our practices more efficient and facilitates improvements in our patient care, it isn’t doing what it was intended to do.”
Robert W. Wah, MD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 38
Electronic health records (EHR) continue to be a hot topic in the news. It seems like everyone has their own ideas of how to improve them—see the blog post I quoted in “Heard this week.”
I really like some of the ideas...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 37
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has called for a 12% increase in federal funding in 2015 to help recruit and educate new nurses to fill newly created position and replace retiring nurses. The ANA projects the U.S. will need 1.1 million new nurses by 2022.
