“No patient wants a clinician taking care of them who is burned out, depressed, or suicidal. However, if we just focus on individuals and their psychological shortcomings, we will miss the big picture of factors afflicting postmodern healthcare.”
- Arnold R....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 14
Q: Do the six general competencies need to be included on the OPPE profile?
A: A lot of people use that as a route for [selecting quality measures]. They pick measurements that reflect one or more of the competencies. You don’t need to have even six...
Today's free resource is an OPPE form for surgical physician assistants used at Methodist Medical Center, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This customizable form and many more are available in ...
The Complete Guide to OPPE: Strategies for Medical Staff Professionals, Physician Leaders, and Quality Directors provides medical staff leaders, medical staff professionals, and the quality team with the tools and strategies they need to effectively carry out OPPE. Following...
A recent Joint Commission survey at my organization brought another topic to light that we need to address in this series: inclusion of practitioner performance metrics that are specific more to a particular specialty, department, service line, or privilege(s) that cross specialty lines.
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Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 13
Authorities recently arrested Imo F. Ndem, MD, under the Georgia Pain Management Act on a felony charge that he operated an unlicensed “pill mill.” The law, which was enacted in 2013, is aimed to crack down on pain clinics that indiscriminately dispense prescription pain medication.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 13
A recent survey of healthcare employers conducted by Health eCareers found that the number of healthcare positions will increase but finding qualified candidates to fill those roles will be challenging.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 13
Twenty-three people—nine physicians and 14 medical workers—were charged this week in connection with a scam using homeless patients in New York to fraudulently bill Medicaid $7 million for unnecessary tests and products.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 13
“What separates doctors and patients is a disjointed and unnatural version of intimacy that in no way mirrors the important bonds that we form in real life non-medical relationships.”
- Jordan Grumet, MD, discusses the intimacy gap between physicians and...
