The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced last week that its national telehealth programs served more than 690,000 veterans during fiscal year 2014. That total represents approximately 12% of the overall veteran population enrolled for VA healthcare, and accounted for more than 2...
A photo-sharing service for healthcare professionals will be rolled out across Western Europe by the end of the year, BBC News reported this week. The service, called Figure 1, enables physicians to share pictures of their patients with each other and with medical students. Each...
Despite a recent movement to increase primary care physicians’ ability to identify mental health problems in their patients, many may still struggle to get their patients access to psychiatric care, according to a study published online earlier this week by Psychiatric Services. For the...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case with potential repercussions for thousands of state licensing boards. At issue is whether a state regulatory board composed mainly of private dentists violated the nation’s antitrust laws when it barred nondentists from offering teeth-...
The AMA and the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, Inc. (AAAASF) separately announced new resources for Ebola. The AMA has created an online Ebola...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 42
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...
