Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 24, Issue 4

Interstate licensure of physicians comes into sharper focus

April 1, 2014

Requirements for licenses to practice medicine differ from state to state, and even when information is available across state lines, license portability can be administratively burdensome. The Federation of State Medical Boards' (FSMB) Interstate Medical Licensure Compact...

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 24, Issue 4

Should the medical staff be departmentalized?

April 1, 2014

Clinical staffing along the departmental model emerged with the rise of subspecialties. However, many medical staff leaders are now reevaluating this approach as they seek to streamline their governance processes. 

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 24, Issue 1

Credentialing and privileging psychologists

January 1, 2014

Psychologists practice in an increasingly varied range of healthcare settings. This article provides an overview of the educational and practice options that are available to psychologists along with some of the recent regulatory changes that may affect the credentialing of psychologists.

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

HIPAA/HITECH: How the changes impact the medical staff services department

December 1, 2013

Although HIPAA has been around since 1996, it's only become a more familiar term in healthcare since the implementation of the Privacy Rule in 2001. The Privacy Rule was designed to specifically address the protection of an individual's personal health information (PHI), including the medical...

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Joint Commission on OPPE/FPPE

December 1, 2013

For most medical staffs, OPPE and FPPE have become everyday parlance. Others still think of them as four-letter words. Now, several years after OPPE and FPPE were added to The Joint Commission's standards for hospitals, some facilities are still struggling to perfect their practices.

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 11

Does your organization have a utilization management ­committee?

November 1, 2013

Did you know that, hidden away in the CMS Conditions of ­Participation (CoP), there is an often-overlooked requirement that is ideal for increasing medical staff involvement and improving practice evaluation?

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