The Supreme Court of California reversed and remanded an appellate court's ruling that a hospital medical executive committee's (MEC) delegation of its authority to select the participants in a fair hearing to the hospital's governing body actually denied a physician a fair...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 10
Medical scribes are increasingly alongside physicians in the emergency department (ED) and other hectic hospital settings, where they enter patient data into electronic medical records (EMR) or paper charts, thus freeing practitioners to see more patients. With the rise of...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 11
Chances are good that your medical services department has already been given the challenging task of assessing a telemedicine providers’ competency or for a practitioner who is using a new technology or procedure. If not, these tasks are likely on the horizon.
Several hospital systems in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are forming what will possibly be the largest healthcare alliance in the country. The alliance, called AllSpire Health Partners, will enable member institutions to save costs and share medical expertise, the hospital systems said last...
The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF) has approved Version 14 of the AAAASF Surgical Standards. AAAASF will begin distributing Version 14 for use during self-evaluations and surveys in the first half of 2014. Version 14 does not apply to facilities...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) continue to move forward, despite the political and regulatory headwinds they face. What does this mean for the medical staff services department? In all likelihood, more of what credentialers do now, under more scrutiny, said Michael Callahan, JD, during a...
