This week, CRC Daily covers credentialing, which is among the many duties that require effective collaboration between medical staff leaders and MSPs. It is a mistake to assume that a practitioner who has been on the medical staff for a while and has gone through the application process...
Your organization must decide if it will include co-terminus language in the employment agreement regarding employment and privileges. This means that if the physician is terminated, he or she automatically loses medical staff membership/clinical privileges. If there is no co-terminus language,...
Your clinical privilege forms need to be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure they reflect up-to-date criteria requirements and standards for the procedure or specialty in question. For example, a procedure that used to be considered a special, noncore privilege when you developed your forms...
Add electronic health records systems to the list of factors that contribute to physician burnout. Physicians who use EHRs and CPOEs are not just less satisfied with their clerical burdens, but also at higher risk for professional burnout, according to a national study of physicians led by Mayo...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 7
With negligent credentialing suits on the rise, MSPs and medical staff leaders must implement approaches that help cultivate a high-caliber medical staff, promote patient safety, and diminish legal risk. But given the widening array of staffing models and technological advances at play in today'...
