Organizations should proactively identify how they will address low- or no-volume practitioners, both at initial appointment and reappointment, to ensure that they are extending privileges only to individuals who can demonstrate current clinical competence.
by Kathleen Tafel, manager of medical affairs and professional credentialing at St. Clair Hospital in Pittsburgh
A tremendous amount of information and work product moves through the medical staff services department (MSSD) on a daily basis. Numerous interactions with “customers...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 29
Fifteen surgeons and 17 hospitals are accused of conspiring with a company that distributed fake spinal implants, according to a civil complaint filed in California by dozens of insurance companies.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 29
The Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) recently released its guide to help hospitals fully comply with recommended hand-hygiene guidelines.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 29
“As soon as the report was out, so were the scalpels. Smart people on Twitter and blogs took the ProPublica team to task for all sorts of reasonable and even necessary concerns.”
- Ashish Jha, MD, discusses the Surgeon Scorecard in a post on...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 29
Last week’s edition of Medical Staff Leader Insider featured a brief about ProPublica’s Surgeon Scorecard, an online tool to compare surgeons based on their death and complication rates. As expected, reactions were varied among physicians. A collection of them can...
New technology requires a practitioner to pursue new privileges, whereas an extension of current technology may require only an extension of privileges. How do you decide which is which? When determining whether it is necessary to grant a practitioner new privileges for a technology, the...
Effective meetings are critical to medical staff leadership—after all, meetings that run long and veer off topic are considered a waste of time, and your medical staff members will find myriad reasons to avoid them. Use this...
