Hospitalists are an integral, indispensable part of hospitals' around-the-clock operations. They are increasingly responsible for in-hospital patient care and necessary for managing publicly reportable clinical and service-related outcomes. At the same time, hospitalists can be...
Citing performance issues, Humility of Mary Health Partners asked cardiothoracic surgeon George Georgopoulos, MD, to voluntarily refrain from performing coronary artery bypass surgeries and hired an independent physician to review several of his cases. Georgopoulos' independent...
A key part to any credentialing application is the attestation, acknowledgment, and release forms. These documents protect your organization as well as the entities that release information to your organization throughout the credentialing process.
Aristotle spoke of practical wisdom in his classic book Nicomachean Ethics, as noted in the contemporary book by Barry Schwartz, PracticalWisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing (Riverbend Books, New York, 2010). "Ethics, said Aristotle, was not mainly...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 33
Medical staffs might wonder what to do when the number zero shows up on a physician’s ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) report. Is it a red flag? Is the information usable? Is that particular indicator meaningful?
