Since The Joint Commission launched the FPPE concept and the related OPPE, hospitals have struggled to find their ideal method for performing and tracking these processes.
Delineation of privileges is one of those evergreen battles in the world of medical staff services-an ever-moving target that requires excellent best practices, but changes so often and so quickly that every organization must find its own tactics for privilege tracking.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 5
Imagine if you could access a physician's entire affiliation history-including letters of good standing and additional affiliation information-through a single database. The National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) felt it was high time such a database was developed,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 5
Medical staff services isn't what it used to be, and no MSP would argue with that. What was once an administrative job has become a highly technical career, and it's getting more specialized with every day that goes by.
Editor's note: This is the fourth and final article in MSB's allied health practitioner series by Patricia A. Furci, RN, MA, Esq., and Samuel J. Furci, MPA, of Furci Associates, LLC, in West Orange, N.J.
A Colorado court of appeals affirmed a trial court's decision that the "captain of the ship" vicarious liability doctrine does not apply in an emergency room setting and a physician is not vicariously liable for negligent acts committed in the emergency room by nonhospital...
