For the next several months, we will design an actual OPPE system looking at different metrics of physician performance. There is no regulatory or accreditation mandate as to what must be in an OPPE system; the only requirement from The Joint Commission and Healthcare Facilities Accreditation...
While the basic concept of peer review has remained the same over the years?the evaluation of a physician's competencies and ability to deliver safe and effective care?the ways it is performed and evaluated have changed, as well as the question of who falls into the peer review bucket. The same...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 1
CRC Symposium panelists Hugh Greeley and Todd Sagin, MD, JD, discuss what will differentiate this event from others. The context of credentialing might be an important distinction, as they explain below. The CRC Symposium will take place March 12?13 at Caesar's Palace in Las...
In February 2014, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine entered into an agreement to transform the accreditation system for graduate medical education (GME)...
Healthcare organizations facing staffing shortages may resort to granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians. However, without full credentials verification of those physicians, credentialing and privileging professionals may clinically...
The recent revelation that a physician in Maryland had been practicing for nearly two decades in the state despite being convicted of rape has brought renewed attention to the issue of whether state medical boards should require criminal background checks for physicians.
