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How will your medical staff process additional FDA information?

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, June 11, 2009

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The Food and Drug Agency (FDA) announced last week that it wants to open its doors and share more information with the public. But for medical staffs already overwhelmed with an abundance of information, not excluding the information they review when developing new technology privileges, will the FDA’s information really make an impact or will it be lost in the shuffle of other time-tested resources?

Chances are because the new information is coming from such an authoritative and trusted source as the FDA, your medical staff will want to hear about it. But that still leaves the challenge of how to manage extra information. The following are some tips to help streamline that process:

• If your medical staff already has a new technology assessment committee, assign specific research roles to several members. That way individual members can share their findings with the group rather than having members duplicate work.
• When archiving researched data, be sure to include the date the information was gathered on, the name of the person who collected it, and its source so that follow-up questions can be properly directed.
• Maintain a list of list of new technology research sources. Sometimes getting started is the hardest part of the research process, so maintaining a list of starting points can help overcome that hurdle.

Sincerely,
Emily Berry, associate editor

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