The public has until the end of the day today to submit suggestions for revisions to the NPDB Guidebook. The updated National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) guide will incorporate legislative and regulatory changes adopted since its last edition (2001), including the merger of the NPDB...
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has released new guidance for graduate medical education in U.S. teaching hospitals and medical centers. The council’s effort creates the framework to reshape the clinical environments in which tomorrow’s physicians learn to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 5
A Valley Center, Calif., man pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges including practicing medicine without a license, the Los Angeles Times reported. At an arraignment at the San Diego Superior Court, state prosecutors charged that Robert O. Young, 61, profited financially and caused...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 5
Last month a panel of experts recommended that the threshold for treating people over 60 for hypertension be raised from 140/90 to 150/90. The panel determined that there was little evidence that lowering systolic blood pressures between 140 and 149 in older people caused more good than harm....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 5
The public now has until tomorrow to submit suggestions for revisions to the NPDB Guidebook. The updated National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) guide will incorporate legislative and regulatory changes adopted since its last edition (2001), including the merger of the NPDB with the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 5
As chilling as our top story is this week, it might lead to a discussion about the widening variety of care sought by patients. “Alternative therapies” are part of the lexicon for many people, and physicians shouldn’t dismiss them completely if there is replicable, clinical study evidence that...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 5
Adverse events for patients being treated for heart attack and heart failure have declined, states a new study published in the January 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. However, there has not been a significant decrease in adverse events for patients being treated for...
Telemedicine is just beginning to carve out a niche in intensive care. The evolution of tele-ICU programs is detailed in a report from the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI), a health policy group that promotes the expansion of telemedicine. The report notes that, as of late 2012, there...
Adoption of basic electronic health record (EHR) systems by office-based physicians increased 21% from 2012 to 2013, according to an issue brief from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, 48.1% of physicians had...
New expert guidance from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, published online last week in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, could make the white coat a relic. The recommendations suggest that physicians ditch traditional white coats, which could...
