The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) has implemented changes to Section 1921, which expands the practitioner information the data bank collects. More details about the new Section 1921 regulation can be found in the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 5
In the past, institutions often relied solely on references supplied by the applicant. But now it is recommended, and in some cases required, that the institution identify which individuals may submit references.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 5
Inter-rater reliability is the extent to which two or more individuals (or raters) agree. In the context of medical staff peer review, inter-rater reliability can be defined as the extent to which two separate reviewers come to the similar conclusion regarding a physician’s performance. It also...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 5
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, and other important...
The hospitalist movement has changed the dynamics of leadership. Traditionally, physicians who had upward of 20 years of clinical experience and were nearing retirement were chosen as leaders, sometimes regardless of their capacity to do the job well. Today, thanks to the under-40 crowd that is...
Hospitals and health systems are increasingly interested in designing and implementing clinical specialty service lines. Clinical service lines are designed to cut across organizational and disciplinary boundaries to organize patient care around one of the following:
• Specific diseases,...
