“Hospitals can do more to protect patients. Improved security, such as surveillance of drug storage areas, tighter chain of custody on drugs, and better tracking of controlled substances are obvious areas to target,” wrote Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson and Erika T. Broadhurst, a special...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 12
The nation will get a good look this week at the future faces of medicine. Friday is Match Day, the high-pressure equivalent of Draft Day in professional sports, when medical school seniors find out where they will be doing their residency training. Students found out Monday whether they...
“I am a ‘collaborating physician,’ and I support the effort to remove the requirement for a collaborative agreement for nurse practitioners to practice in New York,” wrote Devin Coppola, MD, in a letter to the editor that appeared online last week on the Syracuse Post-...
The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) has released new standards for OPPE and FPPE for critical access hospitals and acute care hospitals. Effective January 1, 2015, the medical staff is required to develop a process for evaluation of practitioners who have been granted...
About 90% of hospitals and other healthcare facilities reported using locum tenens physicians at some point in 2013, up from 74% in 2012, according to a survey conducted by Staff Care, a national temporary healthcare staffing firm. Filling in for a physician who left was the most cited reason...
Nurse practitioners (NP) in New York can diagnose conditions and prescribe medications as long as they have a written agreement with a collaborating physician. However, a bill in the New York State Legislature attached to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal would eliminate the need for a...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 11
“Scribes are purported to decrease physician burnout considerably and increase ED efficiency. Better documentation also leads to better billing, so hospitals make more money,” wrote an anonymous poster at KevinMD earlier this week, in an entry titled “The disturbing confessions of a medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 11
Communicating with patients via portals or telemedicine does not significantly reduce in-person physician visits, according to a study in the March issue of Telemedicine and e-Health. Researchers from Mayo Clinic, of Rochester, Minn., conducted a retrospective cohort study of 2,357...
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) have agreed to a single accreditation system for graduate medical education (GME) programs in the U.S. The single...
Physicians at King’s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Ky. performed “medically unnecessary and harmful” heart procedures on more than 500 people, two lawsuits filed Tuesday claim. The lawsuits, filed in state court, alleged that physicians at the medical center misrepresented the severity of...
