Quality

Q: Are employed physicians who have been granted privileges subject to the organized medical staff’s clinical case review portion of the ongoing...Read More »

Today’s free resource is a sample reappointment OPPE scorecard courtesy of Beebe Healthcare, a nonprofit community hospital in Lewes, Delaware,...Read More »

The frequency with which a medical staff services department or quality department distributes OPPE reports depends on its accreditor’s...Read More »

The telemedicine market is expected to more than double over the next five years, climbing from nearly $20 billion today to almost $50 billion in...Read More »

CMS' promulgation of credentialing by proxy in 2011 injected much-needed flexibility, practicality, and robustness into vetting for telemedicine...Read More »

In the medical staff realm, volume is typically expressed in whole numbers‑the practitioner must perform so many procedures to qualify for...Read More »

In recent years, more and more attention has been directed toward quality improvement and patient safety. Just as Syed Ahmed Hussain, MD...Read More »

There should be very few times when a medical staff needs to deny an application for privileges. For the most part, the physician and other...Read More »

In 2011, The Joint Commission published an OPPE/FPPE-focused Standards BoosterPak, in which it pointed to the Accreditation Council for...Read More »