Credentialing & Privileging Articles by Topic: Physician Competency
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Nothing grabs a credentials committee’s attention like a National Practitioner Data Bank...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
The latest 'how-to' techniques, and practical 'working tools' to help you credential and conduct...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 43, October 29, 2009
Have you ever wondered exactly how specialty boards develop new certifications? The evolution...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 42, October 22, 2009
FPPE and OPPE requirements raise the bar for anyone involved in privileging. The Joint Commission...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 42, October 22, 2009
Despite being fired from three hospitals, Michael Roy Sharpe, MD, was never disciplined by a state...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 42, October 22, 2009
Thanks to those of you who took our poll in August! We have papers underway for the two procedures...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 41, October 15, 2009
If your medical staff office’s existing credentialing software helps you create and generate...
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Credentialing Resource Center, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Establishing criteria for current clinical competency for physicians is the medical staff’s...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 39, October 1, 2009
Calling all medical staff professionals and medical staff leaders: Have you mastered your...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 39, October 1, 2009
Our older colleagues deserve to be treated with dignity. The best approach does so while enabling...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 38, September 24, 2009
Calling all medical staff professionals and medical staff leaders: Have you mastered your...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 38, September 24, 2009
Some state medical boards keep their practitioner investigations confidential, and the public only...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 36, September 10, 2009
While the motion to dismiss criminal charges against two nurses who reported a physician to the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 35, September 3, 2009
Carlos F. Gomez, MD brought charges against Georgetown University because of its National...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 34, August 27, 2009
We’re updating several of our Clinical Privilege White Papers and want to hear from you which...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 32, August 13, 2009
MSPs should present the practitioner’s updated quality file to the department chief at the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 32, August 13, 2009
The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine can access confidential peer review information...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 31, August 6, 2009
Yes. Core privileges are specifically mentioned as an appropriate privileging option in the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 31, August 6, 2009
The malpractice trial began yesterday for John Christian Gunn, MD whose patient Herberta...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 30, July 30, 2009
Managing criteria-based privileges is a complex task. Consider a software add-on that will help you...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 28, July 16, 2009
Credentialing Resource Center subscribers can access a new special report, Low-Volume/No-Volume...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 23, June 11, 2009
“If there is a reason why a disclosing party does not want to provide information [in a...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 22, June 4, 2009
Last week, we wrote about a new study that claims that hospitals are not reporting practitioners to...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 22, June 4, 2009
If your medical staff office’s existing credentialing software helps you create and generate...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 21, May 28, 2009
Hospitals are not reporting practitioners to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) as often as...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 21, May 28, 2009
Register for a live free Webex demonstration of Core Privilege Plus on Tuesday, June 9 at 1:00 ET...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 20, May 21, 2009
Our 12th annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium may be finished, but the lessons learned...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 19, May 8, 2009
This week’s poll question is a Credentialing Resource Center Symposium exclusive. We want to...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
The growing low- and no-volume practitioner trend presents challenges for credentialing...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 17, April 30, 2009
The results are in from last week’s poll. We asked readers what work gap length does your...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 16, April 23, 2009
A Tulsa, OK anesthesiologist was arrested last week on complaints of possession of anabolic...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 16, April 23, 2009
Most organizations require practitioners to provide a written statement explaining gaps in work...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 14, April 9, 2009
Many medical staff services departments are challenged to redesign clinical privileges in all...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 14, April 9, 2009
We know budgets are tight. So, in an effort to make this year’s CRC Symposium in Las Vegas...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 12, March 19, 2009
In this week's column, Anne R. Buss, CPMSM, CPCS, explains a curious situation that has...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 9, February 26, 2009
The majority of state medical boards allow physicians to renew their licenses independent of their...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 9, February 26, 2009
Many practitioners have longstanding affiliations with nursing homes, but nursing homes rarely have...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 9, February 26, 2009
In this week’s column, Maureen Coler, Executive Editor, identifies three main ways hospitals...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 6, February 5, 2009
The following is a good definition of professionalism:
Practitioners are expected to demonstrate...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 6, February 5, 2009
In this week’s column, Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS outlines the Joint Commission’s...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 5, January 29, 2009
When considering a change to the format of your physician competency feedback report, assemble a...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
A Georgia appeals court has overturned a lower court’s grant of access to some materials in...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 43, November 13, 2008
Developing competency measurements—either for a new practitioner or during...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 38, October 9, 2008
Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, is the director of medical affairs at Children’s Medical Center of...
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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 36, September 25, 2008
Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, is the director of medical affairs at Children’s Medical Center of...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection , Issue 35, September 18, 2008
Planning to attend the NAMSS conference on October 13-15 and need to purchase a new or improved...
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Credentialing & Verification Update, Issue 22, September 8, 2008
A California appeals court affirmed a trial court's ruling that a hospital unfairly terminated a...