Five articles in the last week from the world of healthcare staffing and technology.

Feds stop disclosures of many serious hospital errors

Key takeaway: The federal government this month quietly stopped publicly reporting when hospitals leave foreign objects in patients’ bodies or make a host of other life-threatening mistakes.

“Smaller” spend levels can call for an MSP/VMS

• Key takeaway: When a company processes less than $20 million in annual temporary labor spend, does it make sense to deploy an MSP/VMS program?
  

Recruiters must educate candidates on market realities

• Key takeaway: One of the hardest battles as a recruiter is to try to educate candidates that the market fluctuates often and cannot always bear the rates they desire.
  

Simple EHR function may trigger audits

• Key takeaway: Clinicians’ use of the “copy and paste” function in electronic health record systems may soon be the subject of indiscriminate Recovery Audit Contractor reviews, a prominent hospitalist warns.
  

4 ways to expand in a hot contract market

• Key takeaway: There is no other way to say it – contract staffing is HOT.