Many medical staffs’ current bylaws were originally written decades ago and are simply amended year after year. Due to their piecemeal creation, such documents may have any number of faults.
Hospitals are increasingly adopting technologies that improve efficiency and make life easier for case managers—at least in theory. Machine-learning programs can improve workflow, flag high-risk patients, or automatically send needed documentation to post-acute facilities. In addition, hospitals...
Process refers to how the physician delivers care. For example, a good process indicator for a hospital that provides acute myocardial infarction (AMI) services might be the time it takes to begin a catheterization procedure, or the so-called “door-to-wire” time. Why? Because clinical studies...
How do you assess the competence of a practitioner who is clinically active at another facility with very little or no activity in your organization? MSPs see these types of cases all the time when they credential a new practitioner’s request for clinical privileges when that practitioner has...
