The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) established a voluntary reporting system designed to enhance the data available to assess and resolve patient safety and healthcare quality issues, according to HHS officials. It first became effective in 2009. Government officials...
Medical staffs know that the peer review process is not free of bias, but what they might not know is that bias goes far beyond being a partner or competitor to the physician being reviewed.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 8
A New York hospital being sued after one of its physicians was convicted of sexually assaulting several patients can’t use the state’s peer review privilege or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to prevent one of the victims from discovering the identities of the...
Performance indicators, also known as performance measures, are predefined competency areas in which a practitioner’s performance is evaluated. Traditionally, this evaluation has focused on clinical proficiency. Increasingly, however, organizations are expected to take a more holistic view of...
It’s important to remind those outside the profession of all the important work MSPs do every day. For example, while credentialing and privileging might be considered job one for MSPs, the medical staff services department is more involved in quality and peer review processes than ever before...
The oversight function of the peer review process involves all the actions necessary to oversee the process to ensure that it is done correctly. The oversight function is not always familiar to physicians because in many hospitals, the peer review process is not organized to perform it.
