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...

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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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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Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 12

Ambulatory settings: Does practitioner privileging need to align with hospitals?

December 1, 2013

Do ambulatory setting and hospital privileging requirements need to match? Who can assess the competence of a practitioner when he or she is the only one with knowledge of a given specialty? In the final installment of the three-part webcast series "Overcoming Competency...

Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 12

Credentialing Resource Center Journal, December 2013

December 1, 2013

Accountable care organizations (ACO) are touted as a way to lower Medicare costs and reward organizations for providing team-based quality patient care. Results have been mixed so far (see sidebar, p. 3), but entities continue to launch or join ACOs for several reasons. For many, it's...

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Is your medical staff office driving a Toyota? A look at process, credentialing, and privileging

December 1, 2013

Over many decades, Toyota Motor Corporation developed a Lean production to standardize work and reap the benefit of improved methodologies that impact the quality of a product. The base aims of standardized work are to impact and improve customer satisfaction while eliminating wasted,...

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