When emergency rooms in rural areas see very sick or badly injured children, bringing in a pediatric critical care specialist by videoconference to help with treatment could prevent errors, a new study suggests. Researchers found rural ER physicians made medication errors—such as giving the...
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) praised CMS changes that would expand coverage of telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries starting next month. “The proposed new rules, while incremental, represent another step toward integrating the use of telecommunications technology into...
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is revising the NPDB Guidebook to incorporate legislative and regulatory changes adopted since its last edition, including the merger of the NPDB with the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank. The revised Guidebook will offer...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 47
Physicians who work in outpatient settings are at just as much risk for burnout as their inpatient counterparts, a study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine has found. Researchers at the Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic reviewed 54 burnout studies from around the world, which...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 47
The evolution of healthcare has brought changes to career tracks and staff levels—some good, some not. CareerCast, an employment website, predicts that implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will lead to hiring for healthcare professionals in the very near future. CareerCast’s...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 47
CMS has finalized payment rates and policies for 2014, including a proposal to support care management outside routine office interactions, the agency announced last week. The final rule sets payment rates for physicians and non-physician practitioners paid under the Medicare Physician Fee...
Eight employees, former patients and visitors have filed a negligence lawsuit seeking damages from a Las Vegas hospital where they say they were exposed to a woman and at least one newborn baby with tuberculosis. The civil lawsuit filed Monday in Nevada state court alleges that administrators at...
A U.S. District Court judge in Newark, N.J., this week sentenced a former physician to six and a half years in federal prison for fraudulently diagnosing patients with heart ailments and ordering them to undergo unnecessary tests. The physician reportedly defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and private...
The Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) is pilot testing an international partnership that aims to enhance and simplify the process of medical elective exchanges for medical schools and students worldwide. Using the Global Education in Medicine Exchange (GEMx) system,...
