“[L]ook forward at the innovations that have come to medicine that are helpful. Be grateful for the improvements in treatment for many diseases that used to have no hope.”
- Starla Fitch, MD, discusses the benefits of technology to the practice of medicine...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
HCPro is working on a new book about focused professional practice evaluations (FPPE) and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for this book is to feature the policies, dashboards, indicator lists, and other forms your organization uses to...
Negligent credentialing is a legal concept recognized by judges in at least 30 states, but not in South Dakota. However, that may change in the wake of “an avalanche” of cases against Allen Sossan, DO, a spine surgeon who has been accused of botching nearly three dozen surgeries that ended...
This may not be credentialing-specific news, but it will likely boost patient satisfaction scores. Michigan’s Henry Ford Health System will adopt a new hospital gown that aims to put the wraps on a big source of patients’ grumbles—a lack of rear coverage. Resembling a wrap-around robe, the "...
HCPro is working on a new book about focused professional practice evaluations (FPPE) and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for this book is to feature the policies, dashboards, indicator lists, and other forms your organization uses to conduct FPPE.
A Worcester (Massachusetts) area physiatrist has been indicted on charges of sexually assaulting two women last year at local hospitals. A Worcester County grand jury handed up indictments Tuesday charging Ho Yin "Aaron" Shiu, DO, with rape and four counts of indecent assault and battery....
Leaders of the Alabama Society of Physician Assistants (PA) are celebrating the recent approval of rules for final adoption by the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners (ALBME) that lay out the process for PAs to apply for Schedule II prescriptive authority. A law enacted in 2013 authorized...
The United States has strict policies regarding medical licensing— foreign trained physicians are only allowed to practice in the U.S. once they have obtained a license in the state in which they intend to work, must acquire a visa, pass the first two steps of the United States Medical-...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 47
HCPro is working on a new book about focused professional practice evaluations (FPPE) and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for this book is to feature the policies, dashboards, indicator lists, and other forms your organization uses to conduct FPPE.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 47
