This week’s tip comes from Credentialing A to Z. OPPE isn’t without its difficulties and having a physician with no activity in your facility is one of them. You are required to collect data for evaluation of all privileged providers so...
Competence evaluations for allied health professionals (AHP) is not onerous. For Joint Commission–accredited organizations, the HR standards require that AHPs have the same education, training, and competence requirements as their employed equivalents. For example, if the hospital employs...
Today's tip comes from the December issue of Medical Staff Briefing:
Although most organizations have different methods for completing OPPE and FPPE, one common factor is that it requires both the medical staff services and quality departments. The data usually lives in the...
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.