Four years ago, a Reno Gazette-Journal investigation of the state’s medical board concluded that it was easier for consumers to find out information about their building contractors than it was for them to get information about their doctors. At the time, the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners pledged to revamp its Web site to a better job of informing the public about doctors. But this year, the Web site contains less information about doctors’ records than it did in 2004. That’s because the board removed medical malpractice settlement and judgement information from doctors’ online records in 2005. That year, the panel also voted against other recommendations for improving the site, such as including a doctor’s educational credentials in his or her Web listing and electronically linking summaries of the disciplinary records to online copies of the records themselves. But with the medical board under fire over the hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas that has been traced to unsanitary practices at an endoscopy clinic, the panel is set to reconsider the reforms it rejected three years ago. “The board had decided to do the minimum (on the Web site) required by law,” said Drennan “Tony” Clark, the board’s executive director. The law mandates the Web site include an alphabetical listing of disciplined doctors, licensed doctors and doctors whose licenses have been revoked.
Please click on the link below to read the Reno Gazette Journal article:
http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080323/NEWS/803230352/1321/NEWS
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