Skill with artificial intelligence (AI) will emerge as a core professional competency that physicians must maintain as part of modern clinical practice, much like competence in using the electronic health record, interpreting diagnostic studies, or applying evidence-based guidelines.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 10
Fragmented oversight across quality, risk, compliance, and patient safety can let warning signs go unnoticed until regulators or plaintiffs’ attorneys connect them after the fact. That same fragmentation can also affect malpractice exposure.
Low-volume providers are, by definition, practitioners who perform very few procedures or admit or treat very few patients within their appointment cycle. At reappointment, these providers may request clinical privileges that they have not performed on a regular basis.
Although civilian health systems operate under different governance structures and requirements, a recent initiative from the Defense Health Agency (DHA) offers lessons for organizations looking to standardize privileging across multiple hospitals.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 35, Issue 9
Organizations have a responsibility to continually evaluate the competency of providers—yet in today’s healthcare environment, they should not assume low volume is evidence of incompetence. Instead, low volume should be treated as a signal to examine the available evidence of a provider’s...
