While you are contemplating how you plan to acknowledge your outgoing medical staff leaders, also think about how you are going to prepare the leaders that start new positions on January 1st.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 49
Rather than providing accountability for quality, medical staff organizations (MSO) are often a hindrance to improving physician performance and patient safety, argue the authors of a perspective published December 5 by the journal Health Affairs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 48
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations released on Dec. 4 a list of draft goals and requirements that will be considered for potential inclusion in the 2008 National Patient Safety Goals. The National Patient Safety Goals, which are updated annually, are designed to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 48
Organizations that are determined to dot the Is and cross the Ts when it comes to adding new privileges/technology should follow several steps before addressing criteria for competency.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 47
Delegates to the American Medical Association's (AMA) House of Delegates criticized the JCAHO for not heeding the input of physicians in adopting new standards, and sounded the alarm on standards they view as undermining physician autonomy, at the group's policymaking meeting in Las Vegas in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 46
In many medical staff organizations, physician leaders are finding that old categories don't fit new realities of how physicians and other practitioners relate to the hospital and participate in medical staff organization activities.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 46
The workload of Canadian general and family practitioners (GP/FP) under age 55 has declined in the past decade while the workload of GP/FPs over age 55 has increased, relative to their same-age peers 10 years prior, according to a recent study. Changing demographics of Canadian GP/FPs, including...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 45
Last week, I was working with one of our Medical Staff Institute clients (Marshall Medical Center in Placerville, CA) and happened to see an article that Marshall's medical staff coordinator wrote for the California Association Medical Staff Services.