For better or worse, the number of physicians employed by hospitals or health systems is skyrocketing. Depending on the culture of your organization, employed physicians may be welcomed as a valuable asset consisting of capable individuals able to help the medical staff carry out its board-delegated responsibilities, or they may be viewed with suspicion and mistrust by nonemployed physicians who now feel their chosen career path to be threatened and unsecure. There are several forces driving this change for physicians and hospitals.

Because minutes are the record of medical staff business, they carry important implications. MSPs must ensure that minutes provide an accurate account of credentials, peer review, or MEC meetings, where high-stakes decisions are made regarding a practitioner’s privileges and ability to practice.

Although writing meeting minutes is a tedious task for MSPs, no one can argue their importance. Minutes are an official record of what happened during a meeting, and their principal purpose is to provide committee members, staff, and others with a:

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