Volunteers now are using their professional and life experience skills to better assist healthcare systems with their strategies and initiatives. Some of the newer volunteer roles include Patient/Family Advisory Council members. The partnership betwe...
Women are underrepresented in physician leadership. Exploring the issue, researchers created a study focused on developing successful skills, behaviors and attitudes for 15 first-year female residents.
Clinically integrated networks are changing the practice of medicine. Throughout the country, these physician-led organizations are taking the lead in improving the value of health care. Here’s how some of them are doing it.
This article reviews what medical providers and suppliers need to know about the September 2016 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-issued final Emergency Preparedness Rule. This rule outlines the requirements for all providers and suppliers in ...
This article discusses how employers too often create binding contracts of which they are completely unaware—until the employee or former employee seeks to enforce the “contract” and collect on the liabilities the organization did not know it had.
The potential risk to physicians alleged to be negligent has resulted in a clinical entity called medical malpractice stress syndrome; it is a “forme fruste” of posttraumatic stress disorder.
This article addresses some of the key reasons that cause physicians to resist testifying, and suggests ways for physicians to deliver their testimony in a way that is effective and can be understood by a jury.
This article examines the distribution of drug-based quality assurance events (QAEs) post-discharge across five-day increments and identifies characteristics associated with post-discharge QAEs.
We outline the common reasons why patients sue physicians, and what activities frequently lead to patient harm. The case examples emphasize the factors that can lead to allegations of negligence and patient harm.
The default position of many healthcare systems seeking physician alignment is to acquire the practice and employ the physicians, but there is another approach that poses far less financial risk to both parties and is far easier to undo if necessary:...
