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The frequency with which a medical staff services department or quality department distributes OPPE reports depends on its accreditor’s specifications for the review cycle. For example, The Joint Commission requires organizations to perform OPPE more frequently than once per year to meet its definition of “ongoing.”

For Dr. David Feinberg, personal connection and a penchant for narrative underpin effective healthcare leadership. In a recent interview with Forbes, the celebrated president and CEO for Geisinger Health, a 12-hospital system based in Pennsylvania, likened himself to a “chief storytelling officer.” 

Successful credentialing teams are taking specific steps to ensure their processes are efficient and effective – you should be too. In this whitepaper, discover eight proven ways you can speed up and improve your credentialing process. These best practices and key strategies will help to enhance your credentialing in a way that benefits your organization at every level, from recruiters and medical staff professionals, to patients and providers.

Q: Are employed physicians who have been granted privileges subject to the organized medical staff’s clinical case review portion of the ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) policy and all its attendant protections?

The telemedicine market is expected to more than double over the next five years, climbing from nearly $20 billion today to almost $50 billion in 2021, according to an August 2016 Research and Markets analysis. For MSPs and medical staff leaders across the country, this rapid rise gives ever-more urgency to efforts to adapt vetting and competency assessment approaches for the growing ranks of remote practitioners.

Although sometimes used interchangeably, emergency, disaster, and temporary privileges are three separate types of privileges to be used in distinct situations. How and when they can be used depends on your accreditor’s standards and what is written in your governing documents. A simple review will make sure you are in compliance with your accreditor and following the language of your internal documents.

Temporary privileges may be granted by the hospital CEO to a practitioner who meets one of the following circumstances and the minimum criteria.