Medical staff offices across the country are using the Internet to make credentialing more efficient and commonly use it to obtain primary source verifications and employing services of online central verification organizations (CVO).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 18
When you call a meeting, what are you trying to accomplish? Most often it is communication. You may wish to communicate a new policy to medical staff members, or seek their input on how to improve quality. In either case, you are trying to communicate with...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 16
A colleague recently asked me if her facility should credential a person brought in to conduct an external peer review. This MSP had conflicting advice from other colleagues in the field. Some said the external peer reviewer need not be credentialed by the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 16
When your hospital initiates an external peer review, determine at that time what you are going to do with the results. To ensure objectivity, you can't make this determination once the results are in. Your EPR policy should specify the multispecialty committee (e.g., credentials committee,...
