This week, CRC Daily covers OPPE. An organization’s decision to employ physicians may require reexamination of existing information-sharing approaches to promote compliant, confidential, and effective use of performance data. Most medical staffs are rightfully extremely protective of...
Criminal background checks are often conducted by hospitals during the initial hiring process of all employees or, in some cases, for specified types of healthcare providers. While many states require criminal background checks as a condition of initial licensure, healthcare organization may...
When implementing retrospective proctoring, it is important to standardize the approach. One good practice is to have medical records prescreened by a nonphysician reviewer (typically a nurse in the quality department). This pre-review is used to highlight major issues and concerns in the chart...
Most credentialing work is considered a peer review activity performed by the medical staff and governing board. As a result, state laws generally grant some amount of peer review protection to those parts of a particular credentials file that are acted upon by medical staff committees or the...
