Ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) is required for advanced practice professionals (APP) as well as physicians. Data is not as readily available for APPs, so the medical staff office has to be creative. Get your physicians involved. Ask them what indicators they consider valuable in...
In order to consider a change to core privileges, you should first examine the privilege delineation system currently in place at your organization. Most likely you will find many examples to bolster your case for a conversion to a criteria-based core privileging system.
Hospitals with well-defined leadership selection criteria that establish a physician’s eligibility to run for office are more likely to elect well-qualified, committed, and knowledgeable medical staff officers. It is hard to hit the target unless you aim for it.
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 and other credentialing stakeholders across the organization to go paperless; house large volumes of...
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Although the structure of every organization varies, developing an OPPE program requires cross-departmental collaboration. The best way to facilitate collaboration is to create an OPPE task force composed of members from several departments.
A challenge that occurs for some medical staffs relates less to the granting of privileges than to the exercise of privileges. Departmental territorialism can occur within organizations and lead to many issues.
Physician leaders need to be recognized and rewarded for the work they do as physician leaders. There are many different kinds of rewards, both financial and non-financial. Here are some non-financial alternatives that hospitals have found to be helpful in recognizing those devoted physicians.
In the past, medical staffs appointed new members for a provisional period, typically for six to 12 months, during which time they monitored the practitioner’s performance. This provisional status/period need no longer exist because FPPE and OPPE regulations have replaced...
