Organizations that are determined to dot the Is and cross the Ts when it comes to adding new privileges/technology should follow several steps before addressing criteria for competency.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 47
Delegates to the American Medical Association's (AMA) House of Delegates criticized the JCAHO for not heeding the input of physicians in adopting new standards, and sounded the alarm on standards they view as undermining physician autonomy, at the group's policymaking meeting in Las Vegas in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 46
In many medical staff organizations, physician leaders are finding that old categories don't fit new realities of how physicians and other practitioners relate to the hospital and participate in medical staff organization activities.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 46
The workload of Canadian general and family practitioners (GP/FP) under age 55 has declined in the past decade while the workload of GP/FPs over age 55 has increased, relative to their same-age peers 10 years prior, according to a recent study. Changing demographics of Canadian GP/FPs, including...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 45
Last week, I was working with one of our Medical Staff Institute clients (Marshall Medical Center in Placerville, CA) and happened to see an article that Marshall's medical staff coordinator wrote for the California Association Medical Staff Services.
