The first story in this week’s pick of the news highlights the importance of organizational culture in determining nurse practitioners’ roles in patient care. It also says something about the limits of legislative solutions. The study surveyed NPs in Massachusetts, which has laws in place...
More than two dozen orthopedic practices have formed a joint corporation, hoping to avoid the financial and regulatory pressures that have driven many physicians to hospital employment. The consortium, called the Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics, includes 25 practices and 130 physicians in...
A study from Columbia University School of Nursing, published in the Journal of Professional Nursing, suggests that opportunities for nurse practitioners (NP) might be impeded by the organization and culture in healthcare settings, and state laws expanding scope of practice therefore...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 3
Some medical school administrators and policymakers see three-year programs as a way to produce physicians, particularly primary-care physicians (PCP), faster as the new healthcare law funnels millions of previously uninsured patients into the medical system. A three-year plan could also...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 3
Should clinicians ever search online for information on a patient—even if the intent is to provide better care—or does HIPAA prohibit such actions? Medical associations and similar groups have developed guidelines about the appropriate use of social media, and many HIPAA-covered entities have...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 3
This headline on a recent blog post caught my eye. Briefly, the blog referred to a recent study in Medical Education that sought to find out whether medical student behavior, as seen on social media,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 3
Health systems that participate in New York’s plan to distribute medical marijuana could run afoul of federal laws, jeopardizing their government funding, according to advocates in that state. Hospitals in other states where medical pot is legal have steered clear of distributing the drug for...
Might surgeons soon be rated based on videos of their work? Videography in surgical skill peer review was named as a HealthLeaders Media Top Healthcare Quality Issue for 2014. The article cited a New England Journal of Medicine study which found that when surgeons watched...
The Joint Commission has approved standards changes for accredited hospitals, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care organizations that provide diagnostic imaging services, including ambulatory organizations that have achieved Advanced Diagnostic Imaging certification.
As of January 1, accredited outpatient surgery settings must now report adverse events to the California Medical Board, rather than the state’s Health Department, no later than five days after the event has been detected. If an adverse event is ongoing or is an emergent threat to the welfare...
