Peer Review, OPPE, and FPPE

Colette Whitby, MD, sued Dr. John Warner Hospital after her employment was terminated due to lack of funding. In February 2011,...Read More »

At the 14th annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium May 12-13 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, I polled the audience to...Read More »

Although patient safety organizations (PSO) have been around for a couple of years, for many medical staffs, questions still...Read More »

Even if you can't make it to the 14th annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium May 12-13 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas,...Read More »

The Joint Commission issued its Standards ­BoosterPak™ for Focused Professional Practice Evaluation/Ongoing...Read More »

Although in many hospitals, complaints or concerns regarding physicians go to the quality committee and then the peer review committee (if need be...Read More »

If a physician doesn’t have much activity in your hospital but is active at an ambulatory clinic or surgery center, current clinical competence...Read More »

The economic forces of healthcare have created a subset of low- and no-volume practitioners who may direct inpatient...Read More »

Physicians are no strangers to concurrent proctoring. At some point in his or her career, every physician is proctored...Read More »

Collecting ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) data on telemedicine providers who may be based hundreds or thousands...Read More »