A growing number of hospitals now require pediatricians to be board-certified before privileging them, although the proportion of hospitals that make exceptions to this policy is also increasing, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.
When is an action reportable to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)? The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration’s Data Bank News website offers periodic reporting scenario articles that answer this question. The following was posted...
The Joint Commission and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) are urging healthcare organizations to recognize National Time Out Day to help draw attention to the time out as a tool to prevent of wrong-site, wrong-side, wrong-procedure, or wrong-person surgery. In a letter...
When patients, information, and materials flow efficiently through the ED, all aspects of care there can improve significantly. Hospitals are working to implement various flow schemes—such as split flow, bed counting, and fast tracking—all in an effort to move patients more efficiently through...
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has published new practice guidelines that outline best practices for delivery of online mental health services. “Practice Guidelines For Video-Based Online Mental Health Services” is designed to help practitioners provide safe, effective care when...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 22
Hospitals can’t survive without doctors who have a real stake in the hospital’s success. Most doctors can’t survive in small private practice. But the obvious way to mesh their interests—physician employment by hospitals or practice acquisitions—is losing its luster in many corners, so a new...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 22
As hospital and health systems examine how to improve the patient experience, one prominent constituency increasingly is not being considered to lead the effort: physicians.
Clinical integration, the advancement of physician-hospital collaboration to increase quality and decrease costs, is harder than it looks. The impending pay-for-value world we are rapidly entering requires that physicians lead clinical integration to achieve success.
As we break for a long weekend and the unofficial start of summer, I want to tell you about a couple of items on the Credentialing Resource Center roster.
First, we’ll be offering you the chance to weigh in on a benchmarking report on fluoroscopy privileging policies. This...
A New Jersey Superior Court jury has awarded a former Bayonne Medical Center hematology technician more than $2.1 million under the state’s whistleblower law. The suit alleged that the plaintiff was disciplined and ultimately fired about a month after he complained that his supervisor did...
