Ten years ago, The Joint Commission introduced its OPPE and OPPE standards. Since then, organizations have worked to develop meaningful and practical processes for professional practice evaluations.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 9
As MSPs, we all know how challenging it can be to establish and maintain a healthy esprit de corps between physicians and hospital staff. Some of this difficulty emanates from the structure of independent medical practice in which the physician is accountable to the hospital but, at the same...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 8
How many of us have received and/or sent an email that started out like this? We all have, at one time or another, and the person asking is hanging out there, swinging...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 4
While hospital quality departments have historically overseen the peer review process, today’s medical staff services teams are increasingly taking up the reins. Typically, this realignment reflects an effort to keep the medical staff—who is ultimately responsible for peer review performance and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 3
Navigating the reappointment process, with its patchwork of expiration dates and verification expectations, can be difficult for ambulatory facilities, which often lack the dedicated credentialing presence of their acute care counterparts.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 2
Medical staff services and credentialing professionals do business with customers who want to be heard and who require expeditious action and follow-through. Professionals in our field have much to consider in their day-to-day work—regulatory compliance, adherence to medical staff bylaws,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 12
Are you considering a change in your credentialing software or a move to an automated system? Modern medical staff services departments are increasingly turning to technologies that allow MSPs...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 10
Medical staff committees are among the vehicles driving delivery of quality patient care. Effective documentation of the issues discussed and decisions made by these committees provides a road map for the medical staff and administration to follow as they pursue the organization’s mission,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 2
This issue marks my last as editor of the Credentialing Resource Center Journal. I'll be moving over to HCPro's home health and hospice product space, including the Homecare DIRECTION newsletter. Delaney Rebernik, who currently manages home health and hospice, will be...
