Before sending peer review information, a medical staff should first look at state laws to ensure it has a mechanism in place to make disclosures...Read More »
Increasingly, mergers and acquisitions are making strange bedfellows of acute, ambulatory, and postacute care facilities. As these newly aligned...Read More »
Although ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) has been around for about a decade, it is still challenging for institutions to create meaningful data that reflects their practices. This sample advance practice professional reappointment performance profile report that can be used to...
Establishing a structure for reviewing OPPE reports can be challenging, especially given that the process requires the resource-intensive and time-consuming task of interpreting data. The medical staff drives the OPPE process; however, medical staff leaders often do not have adequate time to...
Aligning or integrating quality and medical staff services functions can promote earlier detection of systemic shortcomings that affect a hospital...Read More »
Finding that documents gathered, used, and generated during a hospital’s root cause analysis (RCA) process were privileged from disclosure, the...Read More »
"Telemedicine: Performing Effective Credentialing, Privileging, and Peer Review for Remote Practitioners" is now available to Platinum Plus...Read More »
