Featured blog post: Keeping peer review documents confidential may become trickier as medical staffs go electronic

I am currently writing an article for Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider about how medical staffs can protect their peer review documents from discoverability under HCQIA. One sure way to lose your immunity is to fail to keep your peer review documents confidential, and confidentiality is getting harder to maintain as medical staff processes go electronic.
 
Annemarie Martin-Boyan, Esq., senior counsel at Temple University Health System in Philadelphia, encourages medical staff leaders and medical staff services professionals to think twice before sending an e-mail containing a potentially confidential document. “I got a question recently from a peer review committee that wanted certain reports generated out of our incident reporting system to be posted in advance of the meeting so that people could be prepared for the meeting,” she says.

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