When properly conducted, peer review can be an effective process to improve the quality of care provided by physicians. It generally involves the evaluation of a physician's clinical competence or professional conduct by a committee of the physician's peers. To be effective,...
This month begins a series on understanding and implementing an effective ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) peer review program in your organization. This series is designed to demystify the process and offer OPPE best practices that can actually be implemented by medical staffs.
Negligent credentialing is a legal concept recognized by judges in at least 30 states, but not in South Dakota. However, that may change in the wake of “an avalanche” of cases against Allen Sossan, DO, a spine surgeon who has been accused of botching nearly three dozen surgeries that ended...
HCPro is working on a new book about focused professional practice evaluations (FPPE) and we’d like you to be a part of it. Our goal for this book is to feature the policies, dashboards, indicator lists, and other forms your organization uses to conduct FPPE.
Ease of use is one of the hallmarks of effective systems, whether they’re online or on paper. The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)’s recently announced efforts to ease the reporting mechanism seem like steps in the right...
Not sure how to organize and present all your OPPE data? Just open your toolbox—the OPPE Toolbox, that is. Get the tools you need in The OPPE Toolbox: Field-Tested Documents for Credentialing, Competency, and Compliance. This vital new addition to the HCPro library...
