Privileging for New Procedures and Technology: From Resource Assessment to Competency Measurement

Take a multi-faceted approach to developing standards for assessing new technologies and procedures

MSPs and physician leaders must determine how the constant emergence of ground-breaking medical innovations affects privileging and competency assessment. Incorporating new procedures and techniques can shorten patients' length of stay, reduce costs, and limit complications. Not having a process and policy in place for assessing these innovations can jeopardize patient safety and disrupt clinical processes.

Collaboration between MSPs and physician leaders is essential to assessing new procedures and technologies

Eliminate the risks associated with implementing new procedures, turn to Privileging for New Procedures & Technology: From resource assessment to competency measurement. This book, along with accompanying downloadable tools, will help you develop a process for assessing new technologies and procedures in your facility. It covers many of the operational and cultural problems that surround the issue.

As the first comprehensive resource to cover new technology assessment from the perspective of both the MSP and physician leader, issues addressed include:

• Developing a standard process for assessing new technologies/procedures
• Designing a technology assessment committee and outlining who should be involved in the decision to bring a new technology/procedure to the organization
• Identifying privileging criteria and competency monitoring that will be used for physicians using the new technology/procedure
• Diffusing turf disputes between specialties regarding ownership of the new technology/procedure
• Explaining the MSP's role in bringing new technologies/procedures to the organization

Mitigate common challenges and avoid putting your patients at risk!

With so much new technology coming down the pike, don't rush to implement a procedure or innovation without first developing a strategy for safe implementation. MSPs and physician leaders are tasked with managing competition from other hospitals and meeting demands of savvy patients while balancing necessity with cost, quality, and safety.

Drawing on HCPro's extensive experience in consulting for hospitals on issues of credentialing and privilege for cutting-edge procedures, devices, and technology Privileging for New Procedures & Technology: From resource assessment to competency measurement is packed with time-tested strategies and advice. No other book on the market covers technology assessment from the MSP's and physician leader's perspective. It offers a well designed process for evaluating new procedures, complete with checklists, interdepartmental surveys, and ideas for research resources.

Take a look at the Table of Contents:

Introduction: Credentialing and Privileging Challenges: New Techniques and Technologies
Chapter 1: Innovation: The Challenge and the Approach
Chapter 2: Innovative Privileging Challenges for the MSP
Chapter 3: Innovation Assessment: Start With a Committee or How to Form a Committee
Chapter 4: Innovations and Intraspecialty Disputes: Understanding and Mitigating Disputes
Chapter 5: Tying the Process Together: Case Study

Who should read this comprehensive resource?

Medical directors, VPMAs, CEOs, COOs, program directors, medical staff leaders, medical staff professionals, department chairs, clinical directors, and individual physicians.