Avoid liability—develop a standard for assessing new technologies and procedures
New medical innovations are permitting physicians to treat conditions, illnesses, and injuries more effectively than ever before. Incorporating these techniques and advancements can shorten patients’ length of stay, reduce costs, and limit complications. Unfortunately, failing to properly assess these new procedures can jeopardize patient safety and disrupt clinical processes.
Learn to properly assess for new procedures
Eliminate the risks associated with implementing new procedures, turn to Assessing New Procedures and Technologies: A Guide to Credentialing, Privileging, and Dispute Resolution. This book and CD-ROM set will help you develop a standard procedure for assessing new technologies and procedures in your facility. It covers many of the business, regulatory, and organizational problems that surround the issue of incorporating an innovation into your hospital.
As the first comprehensive resource to cover assessment issues beyond practitioners' competence, it addresses issues such as:
- proper physician privileging criteria
- dealing with turf disputes
- facility resource and equipment requirements
- resource utilization
- community need and competition
- reimbursement issues
Are you putting your patients at risk?
Whether it be to match competition from other hospitals or to meet the demands of savvy patients, rushing to implement an innovative procedure could lead to a number of problems. Patient safety stands at the forefront of those problems. With so much new technology coming down the pike, developing a strategy for safe implementation will undoubtedly save lives.
Drawing on HCPro's extensive experience in consulting for hospitals on issues of credentialing and privilege for cutting-edge procedures, devices, and technology—Assessing New Procedures and Technologies is packed with time-tested strategies and advice. No other book on the market covers credentialing and new technology issues, complete with case studies. 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:
- About the contributing author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Plan before You Privilege
- Adopting innovation: What’s right for your organization?
- Reactive versus proactive approach
- Should you even permit this innovation in your organization?
- “The five Ps” policy for hospitals that don’t yet have a policy
- Be wary of privileging “quick fixes”
- Algorithm for deciding whether to develop scope-of-practice criteria
- Chapter 2: Applying the Deming Management Method to Innovation Assessment
- Introduction to the Deming method
- Eleven questions for any organization contemplating innovating
- Five additional questions specific to healthcare organizations
- Questionnaire for the physician requesting the purchase or introduction of new technology
- Dealing with physician resistance to policy
- Checklist for individuals, committees, or departments tasked with assessing a new-technology request
- Chapter 3: Forming a Technology Assessment Committee
- Introduction
- Challenges of new technology
- Function of a technology assessment committee
- Five steps in developing a technology assessment committee
- Conflicts of interest
- References
- Chapter 4: Researching Regulatory and Medical Society Guidelines on Practitioner Training for New Technologies and Procedures
- Avoiding new-technology hot spots and risk areas
- The ongoing assessment of guidelines
- Sources for assessing innovations and determining practitioner-training needs
- Select medical societies by specialty area
- Select medical society recommendations for new-technology training by procedure
- Chapter 5: Innovations and Intraspecialty Disputes: How to Prevent Conflict
- Understanding and mitigating disputes
- Sample privileging dispute case study: carotid artery stenting
- Steps toward eliminating or resolving intraspecialty conflicts
- Delineating clinical privileges: dispute resolution and new-technology policy
- Chapter 6: Assessing Innovations, Case Study One
- One facility assesses whether to offer bariatric surgery
- Chapter 7: Assessing Innovations, Case Study Two
- One facility grapples with an intraspecialty privileging dispute
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.
About the contributing author
Jack L. Cox, MD, MMM, is a senior physician executive with 18 years experience in both regional and national corporate positions, 20 years of clinical experience, and 13 years in an academic setting. His experience includes national corporate strategic planning and operations of performance improvement (cost, quality and safety), clinical product evaluation, physician practices, health plans, international publishing and speaking.
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