A Worcester (Massachusetts) area physiatrist has been indicted on charges of sexually assaulting two women last year at local hospitals. A Worcester County grand jury handed up indictments Tuesday charging Ho Yin "Aaron" Shiu, DO, with rape and four counts of indecent assault and battery....
HCPro is working on a new book about focused professional practice evaluations (FPPE) and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for this book is to feature the policies, dashboards, indicator lists, and other forms your organization uses to conduct FPPE.
Negligent credentialing is a legal concept recognized by judges in at least 30 states, but not in South Dakota. However, that may change in the wake of “an avalanche” of cases against Allen Sossan, DO, a spine surgeon who has been accused of botching nearly three dozen surgeries that ended...
The United States has strict policies regarding medical licensing— foreign trained physicians are only allowed to practice in the U.S. once they have obtained a license in the state in which they intend to work, must acquire a visa, pass the first two steps of the United States Medical-...
Next week, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) will deploy enhancements aimed at improving users’ experience with the Data Bank system. They include streamlined filtering and selection processes for Primary Occupation, which previously required users to search a long, complicated list...
The “cold war” between hospital management teams and physician communities may be thawing, writes Jeff Goldsmith, PhD, president of Health Futures Inc., and an associate professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. In an entry in Health and Hospital...
