The investigative arm of Congress on Jan. 16 reported that The Joint Commission and its not-for-profit educational and consulting affiliate, Joint Commission Resources (JCR), have made progress in the past several years to prevent improper sharing of facility-specific information, though...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 3
This column is based on many years of working with and observing the behaviors of successful medical staff leaders (and sadly, some who have not been successful).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 2
Alex Zakharia, a Miami-Dade heart surgeon, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit for allegedly exaggerating his qualifications about his experience doing open-heart surgery while giving a deposition for the plaintiff in a Michigan malpractice case.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 2
Many organizations will not provide information about clinical performance to other organizations that seek that information for credentialing and privileging.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 1
Kris Rockwell, manager of medical staff services at Children's Hospital in Omaha, NE, writes about having categories for membership and categories for privileges.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 51
The Joint Commission on Dec. 21 posted to its Web site a proposed standard for disruptive behavior. The Joint Commission seeks comments on the proposed standard, LD.3.15, which is open for field review until Jan. 24, 2007.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 50
Fast tracking of applications is a worthwhile goal, for seldom is there any benefit in having the process be delayed. A thorough, prompt, and fair interview process is essential, and requires a system in which the hospital and its medical staff fully acknowledge that the tasks of credentialing...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 50
A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician to death on Dec. 19, convicting them of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV/AIDS, in a re-trial ordered after a court reached the same verdict in 2004. European and American human rights and physician...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 49
While you are contemplating how you plan to acknowledge your outgoing medical staff leaders, also think about how you are going to prepare the leaders that start new positions on January 1st.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 49
Rather than providing accountability for quality, medical staff organizations (MSO) are often a hindrance to improving physician performance and patient safety, argue the authors of a perspective published December 5 by the journal Health Affairs.
