This week’s news includes a variety of issues affecting medical staff service leaders. I’d like to add a couple of items of interest from HCPro. For medical staff service offices grappling with assessment and privileging issues, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Overcoming Competence Assessment...
Ideally, a more comprehensive drug testing policy that included preemployment and random drug testing would be built into the medical staff bylaws as part of the privileging and credentialing process, according to the authors of an April article in the Journal of the American Medical...
Event reporting in the busy environment of the ED can be a challenge, and many organizations, whether because of distractions, forgetfulness, or simply not understanding a given action's adverse effect on patients, do not do reporting well.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 8
MSPs nationwide will likely encounter more international medical graduates (IMG)-both foreign-born, U.S.-trained physicians and U.S. nationals who graduated from overseas medical schools-applying for privileges in their facilities.
Drug testing upon employment is a fairly common practice across a variety of industries from blue collar manufacturing jobs to corporate administration. Additionally, many employers have developed policies around random drug testing.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 7
The Credentialing Resource Center 2013 MSP Salary Survey confirms what previous surveys showed: MSPs hold an increasing variety of titles and their scope of work is expanding. The survey was open to CRC members and Credentialing Resource Center Connection readers from mid-March to mid-April...
There's an old saying in healthcare that no matter how great your process or policy is, if it's not documented, you didn't really do it. So often, it's the documentation of the policy-not the policy itself-that can cause the most stress, and this frequently comes into play when...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 23
A growing number of hospitals now require pediatricians to be board-certified before privileging them, although the proportion of hospitals that make exceptions to this policy is also increasing, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.
The da Vinci Surgical System was first introduced into healthcare in 2000, following FDA approval. The cutting-edge system allowed surgeons to sit at a console and manipulate small instruments using high-definition 3-D images. It was touted as a safer and more effective way to...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 6
When a practitioner comes to you with a request to acquire a new piece of equipment or try a technique that's never been performed at your facility before, how do you respond? If you answered that you would consult your policy on implementing new technology or techniques, you're...
