Overcoming Competency Assessment Challenges

Have you developed standards for assessing the competency of locum tenens, telemedicine, or new technologies at your facility? Medical staff professionals and physician leaders must be prepared for the challenges these areas create for competency assessment. Not having a process and policy in place can jeopardize patient safety and disrupt clinical processes. Anne Roberts, CPCS, CPMSM, and Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, discuss these common problem areas when assessing competency and what to do about them in a live webcast on Tuesday, June 18 from 1:00-2:30 (EST). This is session the first in a three-part webcast series.

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

• List competency criteria for granting temporary privileges
• Identify solutions to decrease risk from using locum tenens practitioners
• Describe the contractual and credentialing requirements related to telemedicine services
• Evaluate and process requests for new technology/techniques
• Identify whether new competencies or privileges are required when implementing new technology or techniques

Medical staff professionals, medical staff leaders, physician leaders, directors of quality, chief medical officers, vice president of medical affairs, department chairs, medical executives, CMOs /VPMAs, credentials committee members, credentials committee chair and department chairs, hospital attorneys, risk managers, accreditation specialists, compliance officers.

To learn more about this webcast, please visit www.hcmarketplace.com/.