Citing the Texas "anticompetitive action exception" to the peer review privilege, the Supreme Court of Texas (the "Court") ordered a hospital to produce a number of peer review documents.
The internal peer review processes at hospitals aim to measure and monitor physicians' performance through evaluations by other physicians. Peer reviewers are typically physicians in the same community and specialty as the physician who's being evaluated. However, in certain situations,...
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (the "Court") rejected a hospital's argument that the state's peer review statute applied to electronic medical record audit trails.
Most hospitals and their medical staffs do little or nothing to prepare a staff member to proctor. This is a serious deficiency that can have numerous adverse consequences. For example, an aggressive proctor might make judgmental statements that unnecessarily push the...
If you are struggling with questions related to AHP peer review, privileging, and other medical staff functions, forming an AHP committee may be the answer. Cindy Radcliffe, CPMSM, director of medical staff services at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California, shares how her AHP...
It's been several years since the FPPE and OPPE processes were introduced, but medical staff offices still struggle with tracking the performance of their allied health professionals (AHP). Once these practitioners are credentialed and privileged, facilities find little guidance on what to do...
