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 any information about the peer review process. However, to meet the legitimate needs and concerns of all parties—the organized medical staff, the health system employer, and the employed physician—integration must exist to allow some level of formal information sharing between the health system employer and the organized medical staff peer review process while simultaneously guaranteeing that there are no unsanctioned breaches of confidentiality.

The South Dakota Supreme Court (the “Court”) recently reversed a circuit court’s decision ordering several healthcare providers to produce peer review materials. The Court disagreed with the lower court’s interpretation of the state’s peer review privilege and found that a court-created crime-fraud exception to the privilege was unnecessary.

The CRC homepage is sporting a brand-new polling feature. Our first question asks site visitors for their take on which verbiage best represents those in the MSP profession: “medical staff professional” or “medical services professional.” 

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Have a hot medical staff or credentialing topic you’d like your peers to weigh in on? Send proposed questions to CRC Editor Delaney Rebernik at drebernik@hcpro.com, and you could see your idea showcased in a future poll.   

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