“As soon as the report was out, so were the scalpels. Smart people on Twitter and blogs took the ProPublica team to task for all sorts of reasonable and even necessary concerns.”
- Ashish Jha, MD, discusses the Surgeon Scorecard in a post on...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 29
Last week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider featured a brief about ProPublica’s Surgeon Scorecard, an online tool to compare surgeons based on their death and complication rates. As expected, reactions were varied among physicians. A collection of them can...
New technology requires a practitioner to pursue new privileges, whereas an extension of current technology may require only an extension of privileges. How do you decide which is which? When determining whether it is necessary to grant a practitioner new privileges for a technology, the...
Effective meetings are critical to medical staff leadership—after all, meetings that run long and veer off topic are considered a waste of time, and your medical staff members will find myriad reasons to avoid them. Use this...
This week of medical staff leadership coverage begins with a New Jersey court case that illustrates how following procedures regarding professional review actions can help ensure HCQIA immunity.
In the case, Neelu Pal, MD, sued Jersey City Medical Center, its medical-dental staff, and the...
