If an organization consistently relies on temporary privileges and does not fully verify practitioner credentials, it places patient safety at risk and exposes itself to a potential breach of duty.

A physician and former hospital president is suing Tenet Healthcare and Detroit Medical Center (DMC). Ted Schreiber, MD, claims he was forced out of his job at DMC Heart Hospital in October for reporting quality of care issues. 

Schreiber alleges he raised concerns about multiple issues during DMC peer review meetings, including physician competency and unnecessary surgeries performed on patients by other physicians. He says executives ignored his concerns and instead reliated against him for being a whistleblower.

The physician chairperson performance measurement form is a tool for measuring and documenting performance, discussing professional and organizational development, and setting goals and objectives. The tool is designed to facilitate communication and feedback, the most critical element in the performance planning and evaluation process. The process should strengthen the partnership between the hospital administration and the chairperson, ultimately benefiting the individual chair, the organization, patients, and all parties involved.

One of the ways that we’ve gotten the other clinical departments to be involved is if they’ve had challenges with newly oriented providers. We started by speaking with the leadership from those departments, to first create a dialogue about what we were trying to accomplish with the orientation. We worked together, knowing that we wanted to make sure that the physicians were communicating effectively with the clinical staff, and that they were getting all the resources that they needed.

Health records are data-rich, and more stakeholders are looking to dip into them for increasingly diverse purposes such as population health and value-based care programs. At the same time, payers are stepping up their use of data to guide audits, and the growing burden of documentation is cited as the leading cause of physician burnout. As the uses of health information expand, the purpose, usability, and integrity of the data can be put at risk.

The quintessential question has always been, “How much is not enough, and how much is too much?”

We are in the process of putting together the MSP Salary Survey Report, based on our recent MSP salary survey. We are looking for MSPs and other experts to be interviewed for the report, commenting on the findings and what they are seeing in the industry. If you are interested in participating, please reach out to me at kaccorto@hcpro.com.