Traditionally, a peer has been defined as an individual in the same specialty. However, as inpatient medical practice has become more complex, with multiple specialties involved in patient care and numerous handoffs among practitioners, that definition has proved to be too limited for effective...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 16
The medical staff professional’s job is always going to be stressful, and there is no way of getting around that. Many of the areas of stress that MSPs deal with are ones that cannot be removed, but there are some things MSPs can do to reduce stress in the workplace, including honing their time...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 15
Strategic planning is a business term that many in healthcare environments have associated with “something administration has to do.” The challenge of an effective medical staff leader is to incorporate strategic planning into the organized medical staff’s functions.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 15
In helping hospitals design effective medical staff quality committees to oversee their peer review programs, The Greeley Company must often help hospitals define the responsibilities of these critical committees. One area of debate is whether hospital performance improvement (PI) activities...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 15
Direct-to-patient marketing by hospitals to tout a procedure, such as carotid stenting or artificial disk replacement, or service, such as hospitalists or a women’s center, is becoming commonplace.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 15
It seems no matter how hard MSPs and medical staff leaders to try communicate important credentialing changes to physicians, a few physicians will inevitably claim they were left out of the loop.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 14
In addition to the report itself, the medical staff office should provide physicians with additional materials to help them understand the report. The goal of most reports is to be concise and easy to read. Therefore, it is best not to include more explanatory detail than necessary in the actual...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 14
Ask a physician leader what his or her job is, and you most often get a blank stare. After some fumbling, the individual likely provides a vague description such as, "Leading the medical staff," or "Running the department." Why? Because hospitals don’t typically provide physician leaders with...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 14
There is a saying making the rounds in healthcare today: If culture and strategy are not aligned, culture eats strategy for lunch every time. The Greeley Company has certainly found this to be true for medical staffs. In our work across the country, we have found that medical staff culture can...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 13
The Greeley Company has developed a way to describe physician performance measurement tools that reduces the time physicians spend on chart review while still providing accurate information on physician performance. It shifts the peer review process away from reviewing individual cases to...
