A radiologist faces three misdemeanor charges for allegedly stealing the protected health information (PHI) of nearly 97,000 current and former patients of NRAD Medical Associates, the Long Island, New York, medical practice where he worked. Richard Kessler, MD, was arrested December 3 and...
Amid the healthcare industry’s efforts to reduce the overuse of emergency departments, a new poll indicates too many patients may seek treatment at urgent care centers instead, possibly posing a risk to their health. The poll, conducted by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 49
Why are so many organizations struggling to change the medical staff’s view of peer review from punitive to positive? Nationally renowned medical staff leadership experts Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, and Mark Smith, MD, MBA, CMSL, dissect major issues that plague the peer...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 49
Boston Medical Center and Tufts Medical Center recently confirmed that they are considering a merger. Both hospitals declined to comment on when they might reach an agreement on the merger or how they would implement it.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 49
At the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium in Las Vegas, March 12-13, 2015, speaker Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, will address several hot-button credentialing and privileging issues....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 49
“Once upon a time, in a medical school far far away, I was taught that my sacred oath and calling was to the patient. The one patient. That has not changed. What I see now, what all doctors must understand, is that the individual patient, that one patient, that precious, irreplaceable...
