Increasingly, mergers and acquisitions are making strange bedfellows of acute, ambulatory, and postacute care facilities. As these newly aligned...Read More »
Although ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) has been around for about a decade, it is still challenging for institutions to create meaningful data that reflects their practices. This sample advance practice professional reappointment performance profile report that can be used to...
Although external peer review is seldom required in most organizations, it is nonetheless important to have a policy in place should the need...Read More »
Establishing a structure for reviewing OPPE reports can be challenging, especially given that the process requires the resource-intensive and time-consuming task of interpreting data. The medical staff drives the OPPE process; however, medical staff leaders often do not have adequate time to...
Aligning or integrating quality and medical staff services functions can promote earlier detection of systemic shortcomings that affect a hospital...Read More »
Finding that documents gathered, used, and generated during a hospital’s root cause analysis (RCA) process were privileged from disclosure, the...Read More »
"Telemedicine: Performing Effective Credentialing, Privileging, and Peer Review for Remote Practitioners" is now available to Platinum Plus...Read More »
In this 90-minute webinar, expert speaker Catherine M. Ballard, Esq., provides practical, compliance-minded guidance on performing effective credentialing, privileging, and peer review for remote practitioners. Drawing on her expansive industry expertise, Ballard demystifies the...
