Medical staff credentialing and peer review requires a hospital to collect data on practitioners that is significant and sensitive. It is important that the hospital use such information only for the purposes for which it was collected. A hospital should take all reasonable measures to protect...
As hospitals diversify their medical staffs and contend with mounting regulatory efforts to ally payment and performance, interdisciplinary...Read More »
Join us for a peer review virtual workshop on January 16th and get your current peer review challenges solved! During this 2.5-hour workshop, peer...Read More »
Even when your facility has a policy for assessing and adding innovations, there is still a temptation to react to each individual practitioner’s application, rather than to consult the policy. Every request, it seems, comes with its own “special circumstances.” However, such a haphazard...
The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice recently released an open letter addressed to Maryland Senator Dan K. Morhaim, MD, board...Read More »
With flu season upon us, now is the time for hospitals and other healthcare facilities to consider implementing a mandatory vaccination program...Read More »
Medical staff categories reflect the type and/or level of practice/activity that a hospital’s or healthcare system’s medical staff members carry out within the facility (e.g., based on the kind/number of admissions, patient contacts, or consultations) and help define their roles in medical staff...
