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Survey: Tell us about your privileging system

Emily Berry — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:44:54 +0000

We’ve got 6 quick questions to ask you if you’ve got a few seconds to take our survey. Click here to tell us about your privileging system. Thanks!

Building community with satellite clinic and hospital practitioners

Emily Berry — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:37:20 +0000

Extending medical staff membership to practitioners who primarily work at satellite clinic locations is one way to ensure that those practitioners work as a unit with their hospital-based peers. But it’s not the only way. Below are some tips medical staffs can use to build camaraderie between the two groups. Remember that building relationships today can [...]

Quick poll: Does your hospital pay medical staff leaders?

Elizabeth Jones — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:48:48 +0000

We’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about medical staff compensation. Hospital and medical staff leaders alike are wondering how much to pay, say, the chair of the peer review committee or the chiefs of staff. Take this poll to see what your peers are doing. Be sure to use the scroll bar to see [...]

Survey: How should fellow credentialing offices submit verification requests to you?

Emily Berry — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:30:48 +0000

We are compiling and updating our directory of medical staff office contacts in hospitals nationwide. We would like to confirm the appropriate contact within your medical staff or credentialing office that should receive requests for credentials verification from other facilities. If you have recently submitted your listing information (in the past 6 months), you do not need [...]

The Association of Health Care Journalists puts The Joint Commission on the spot

Elizabeth Jones — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:49:47 +0000

The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) has asked The Joint Commission to make information about hospitals more accessible. AHCJ has pinpointed several problems with The Joint Commission’s Quality Check Web site. For example, all accredited hospitals are given a stamp of approval, even hospitals whose accreditation status is conditional, and historical records for facilities [...]

Surgical techs face more oversight under Colorado bill

Emily Berry — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:29:27 +0000

The case of a Colorado surgical technician who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for infecting patients with Hepatitis C may have wide reaching effects for other surgical technicians, according to a March Outpatient Surgery Magazine article. Colorado legislatures, reacting to the high profile case of the technician, have proposed a bill requiring surgical techs [...]

New simulation training for robotic-assisted surgeons

Emily Berry — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:02:43 +0000

Most surgeons who perform robotic-assisted surgeries using the da Vinci™ robotic surgical system, or a similar product, learn by shadowing colleagues. Now, the new Robotic Surgical Simulator, or RoSS, allows surgeons to learn through simulation, according to a February 25, SUNY Buffalo press release. Researchers are calling RoSS a flight simulator for surgeons because it follows [...]

HHS replaces NPDB management team

Emily Berry — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:53:35 +0000

Following a newspaper exposé that revealed inaccuracies in the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) replaced the NPDB management team, according to a March 2, Los Angles Times article. Mark S. Pincus, will return to the role of acting director of the Division of Practitioner Data Banks; he [...]

Health Reform Live!

Emily Berry — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:11:29 +0000

If you’re curious about the latest update on the government’s healthcare reform legislation, check out the streaming video from today’s bipartisan meeting on health reform. To access video of the meeting, visit The White House Web site www.whitehouse.gov.

February contest winner: MS.01.01.01 gap analysis tool

Emily Berry — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:23:46 +0000

Congratulations to Linda Ford, CPMSM, CPCS, our February contest winner! Her innovative MS.01.01.01 gap analysis tool won her free registration to the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium. (Keep those contest entries coming! Our next contest drawing is at the end of March. Click here to read the contest rules in full.) Linda is the director of the medical [...]