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The third largest health system in the United States, Providence St. Joseph Health System struggled with an issue common among health systems: how to bring together disparate data and develop one source of truth for provider data.

Researchers from Harvard found that physicians who treat their colleagues poorly are also involved in more medical malpractice claims.

While the concept of practitioner performance monitoring has been around for more than a century, the continuing march toward value-based reimbursement and integrated care makes routine evaluation more important than ever. As the tools driving this effort, performance indicators are critical to capturing valuable, reliable data on a practitioner’s current competence, quality of care, and opportunities for improvement.

There should be very few times when a medical staff needs to deny an application for privileges. For the most part, the physician and other LIP applicants are practitioners who have excellent records and will continue to deliver high quality in their ongoing patient care.

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (the “Court”) denied a hospital’s motion to dismiss a plaintiff’s claim, finding that a delay in performing a medical screening may violate the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).

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