Privileging professionals often face roadblocks and confusion when making the move to convert to a criteria-based core privileging methodology. Learn practical solutions for address these challenges by attending Improving Performance Through Criteria-Based Privileging at HCPro’s 2016...
Telepsychiatry shows promise as a way for hospitals to deliver scarce services to vulnerable patients, particularly in medically underserved areas. Often, telepsychiatry enables practitioners to evaluate and treat people who otherwise might not receive mental healthcare. For most organizations,...
Granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians without fully verifying their credentials can put patients and healthcare organizations in danger?both clinically and legally.
With the rise of healthcare and services outside traditional hospital settings, outpatient...
Credentialing and privileging professionals are tasked with ensuring all privileging requests—no matter how temporary—are thoroughly reviewed. Find out how granting temporary privileges and using locum tenens physicians without full credentials verification may clinically and legally endanger...
Carol S. Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS, has participated in the development of the medical staff services profession for more than 40 years. In 1996, she founded Plainfield, Illinois–based PRO-CON, a consulting firm specializing in credentialing, privileging, medical staff organization...
