With the proliferation of online review sites and message boards, it's become increasingly commonplace for patients to post their thoughts about physicians for the world to see. When a negative comment threatens to damage a physician's reputation, it's important to choose the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 10
Deborah Sutherland, PhD, CEO of the University of South Florida Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS), says physician simulation training may be the (near) future of privileging, competence assessment, and much more?both in hospitals and at the specialty board and state...
MSB editorial advisory board members Jack L. Cox, MD, MMM, senior vice president and chief quality officer at Hoag in Newport Beach, California; and William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE, vice president and chief medical quality officer at Pocono Medical Center in...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 9
Todd Sagin, MD, JD,says hospitals and MSPs have a number of tools they can use to protect themselves when potential issues are identified ... including a simple policy: Don't use the words "in good standing."
As medical staff leaders struggle to motivate physicians to fulfill their proctoring obligations, some have considered offering compensation to encourage those physicians to complete their evaluations. But before adopting this practice, a medical staff should ensure it has...
A conversion to core privileging is underway at MaineHealth, and the effort has spurred a standard application for privileges among the eight hospitals in the system. MSB recently spoke with Cheryl Schilke, RN, CPMSM, director of Synernet, MaineHealth's...
On Wednesday, July 9, HCPro hosted a webcast entitled "Assessing and Managing Clinically Suspect Practitioners: From Collegial Intervention to Corrective Action." During the 90-minute webcast, Todd Sagin, MD, JD, national medical director of Sagin Healthcare Consulting...
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to physician reentry, and that's the way it should be, according to Nielufar Varjavand, MD, associate professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and program director of the Drexel Physician refresher/reentry course at Drexel...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 8
Developing and implementing a criteria-based core privileging system is challenging and requires considerable effort, but the result will greatly benefit the organized medical staff and the healthcare organization.
CMS elected to modify its proposed prohibition on the use of a unified and integrated medical staff for a multihospital system and its member hospitals, allowing each hospital to voluntarily integrate itself into a larger systemwide medical staff. Experts...
