Telepsychiatry shows promise as a way for hospitals to deliver scarce services to vulnerable patients, particularly in medically underserved areas. Often, telepsychiatry enables practitioners to evaluate and treat people who otherwise might not receive mental healthcare. For most organizations,...
Granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians without fully verifying their credentials can put patients and healthcare organizations in danger?both clinically and legally.
With the rise of healthcare and services outside traditional hospital settings, outpatient...
Credentialing and privileging professionals are tasked with ensuring all privileging requests—no matter how temporary—are thoroughly reviewed. Find out how granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians without full credentials verification may clinically and legally endanger...
Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, has participated in the development of the medical staff services profession for more than 40 years. In 1996, she founded Plainfield, Illinois–based PRO-CON, a consulting firm specializing in credentialing, privileging, medical staff organization...
A myriad of regulatory issues confront healthcare organizations as they determine what specific telehealth services to offer and how to offer them. What does this mean to MSPs and medical staff leadership? In this article, we summarize some of the major legal and regulatory challenges facing...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 2
Following is an excerpt from the updated Clinical Privilege White Paper, Medical toxicology–Practice area 405. See the Credentialing Resource Center website for additional new or updated white papers.
