Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Joint Commission on OPPE/FPPE

December 1, 2013

For most medical staffs, OPPE and FPPE have become everyday parlance. Others still think of them as four-letter words. Now, several years after OPPE and FPPE were added to The Joint Commission's standards for hospitals, some facilities are still struggling to perfect their practices.

Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider - Volume 10, Issue 12

Credentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider, December 2013

December 1, 2013

Navigating the pitfalls of APP credentialing and competency assessments

The expanding role of APPs in healthcare has forced hospitals to find creative ways to appropriately credential and evaluate practitioners

The role

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Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

HIPAA/HITECH: How the changes impact the medical staff services department

December 1, 2013

Although HIPAA has been around since 1996, it's only become a more familiar term in healthcare since the implementation of the Privacy Rule in 2001. The Privacy Rule was designed to specifically address the protection of an individual's personal health information (PHI), including the medical...

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Medical Staff Briefing, December 2013

December 1, 2013

Bringing patients and providers together

International organization improves communication by inviting patients to the table

Communication-whether among physicians, between physicians and nurses, or between physicians

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Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Leadership equation: 7C + 1 = successPart 4: Handling competition

December 1, 2013

Given the lack of economic alignments, shrinking or flat reimbursements, and emergence of new technologies, it is almost inevitable that there will be competition between physicians and hospitals. The real challenge is figuring out a way to successfully and simultaneously collaborate and compete...

Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider - Volume 10, Issue 12

Supreme Court of North Dakota affirms summary judgment in favor of health system regarding physician’s claims for denial of privileges

December 1, 2013

The Supreme Court of North Dakota affirmed a state district court's decision to grant a health system's motion for summary judgment regarding a physician's claims against it for defamation, tortious interference with a prospective business advantage, and violations of North Dakota state...

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