Most medical staff services professionals build their careers on helping their hospital medical staffs avoid situations that could lead to accusations of negligent credentialing. Yet the credentialing knowledge and expertise they amass can make them uniquely capable expert witnesses in negligent...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
Telepsychiatry shows promise as a way for hospitals to deliver scarce services to vulnerable patients, particularly in medically underserved areas. Often, telepsychiatry enables practitioners to evaluate and treat people who otherwise might not receive mental healthcare. For most organizations,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
The real challenge on the outpatient side comes when we try to apply the principles of inpatient privileging to the ambulatory world. Many organizations have only a vague idea of what clinical activity is going on in physician office practices
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
Telepsychiatry shows promise as a way for hospitals to deliver scarce services to vulnerable patients, particularly in medically underserved areas. Often, telepsychiatry enables practitioners to evaluate and treat people who otherwise might not receive mental healthcare. For most organizations,...
Education. Support. Guidance. These are all words you hope physicians use to describe their tenure as medical staff leaders. Admittedly, it can be easier said than done to support medical staff leaders when the daily grind of medical staff services or clinical practice eats up the majority of...
Part 8: Bylaws and employment agreements--perfect together?
Are employed physicians held to the standards of the medical staff bylaws? Where does an employment contract fit into this situation? William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE, tackles this challenging issue.
