Nurse practitioners (NP) would be allowed to treat patients and prescribe medications independently under a proposal by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration, a potentially significant change in the medical landscape aimed at expanding access to primary care. The ability of NPs to work...
The National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) has submitted its proposed changes to the NPDB Guidebook with the goal of clarifying the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) reporting process and to facilitate accuracy in NPDB reporting. In a letter signed by NAMSS president...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 7
Last week’s news included a report that the television show House had helped hospitals in Germany diagnose cobalt intoxication in a patient. I don’t know how many Medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 7
The largest of 26 coalitions participating in the $218 million, federally funded Hospital Engagement Networks (HEN) program claims it has prevented 69,000 patients from hospital-caused complications at 1,600 hospitals in its first two years compared to rates from the recent past. Hospitals...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 7
Physicians Tim Gueramy and Tracey Haas are on a mission to help entrepreneurial physicians improve the field. Last March, the husband-wife team launched The Walters Physician Incubator, an Austin, Texas, nonprofit that's open only to physicians with a startup idea. In less than a year, the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 7
The inflexibility of the federal electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use program and the problems with certified EHR technology must be addressed before the program moves forward, physician organizations and others told a federal health IT panel last week.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 7
Massachusetts voted to legalize medical marijuana in 2012, but physicians are still waiting for practice guidelines and education that will enable them to issue the necessary certificates to patients. “I have received no special training (required for physicians to certify patients as eligible...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 6
Diane Brown is a long-term care regulatory specialist and lead educator for HCPro's Medicare Boot Camp-Long-Term Care Version. In this Q&A with Diane, she answers a question about Jimmo v. Sebelius.
Baylor Health Care System failed to properly monitor or investigate a Plano (Texas) neurosurgeon–recently barred from practicing in the state–despite repeated warnings about an alleged “drug problem” and “lack of competence,” according to a federal lawsuit. Baylor Regional Medical Center at...
HCPro is working on a new book about OPPE, and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for the book is to feature case studies of organizations that have implemented an effective OPPE program or process and are excited about sharing their experience and forms with their peers.The new book...
