Consider alarm fatigue. Providers are supposed to respond with the same alacrity to each of the hundreds of pings, alerts, or notifications they get every day. But these systems are often so excessive and poorly calibrated that staff become numb to them. Then, when an important alert is...
In 2019, more than 41 million patient records were breached, nearly tripling the number of breaches from 2018, according to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net.
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Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 2
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (the “Court”) affirmed a district court’s granting of summary judgement, finding that an employer may offer to hire an applicant on the condition that she undergoes a medical examination confirming her ability to perform the job’s...
A recent survey shows provider directory maintenance can be expensive and that, in the absence of an affordable technical fix, you’ll have to tighten up your record updating if you want to reduce those costs.
CAQH, the nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations best known...
Each organization should have some level of orientation for its physicians, as there are many organizational and regulatory requirements that physicians should be made aware of. MSPs should work with the president of the medical staff, the vice president of medical affairs, and the credentials...
A recent article published by the Journal of the American Medical Association provides clinical insights about the new coronavirus outbreak that started in China. As of February 12, more than 45,000 cases of infections had been reported, with the vast majority of the cases in China, and...
