AllMed Healthcare Management today
announced two new services to help hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs)
monitor and measure the performance of their physicians, as well as meet
accreditation standards. The two PeerScore(SM) services help hospitals
meet ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) and focused professional
practice evaluation (FPPE) required by The Joint Commission.
“Besides the obligatory analysis of any sentinel event,
today’s hospitals and ACSs also face tighter peer-review standards, increased
scrutiny of doctors’ performance and the demand for consistent and repeatable
credentialing, privileging, proctoring processes,” said Andrew G. Rowe, CEO.
“Our PeerScore services offer a convenient and cost-effective way for them to
implement unbiased, consistent and repeatable processes for both ongoing and
focused evaluations.”
Common PeerScore
Features
AllMed’s PeerScore solutions help hospitals and ASCs
meet or exceed the intent of The Joint Commission’s OPPE and FPPE standards by
emphasizing physician education and performance improvement. Both services help
them monitor doctors’ performance across specialties and departments and, by
removing conflict of interest to ensure objective, continuous, consistent and
reliable evaluations of practitioner performance. PeerScore uses board-certified,
actively practicing physicians who possess the same credentials and work in
similar practice settings to review each physician or case.
PeerScore OPPE
PeerScore OPPE(SM) moves hospitals beyond the
reactive analysis focused mostly on isolated sentinel events, by offering
systematic and proactive reviews of physicians’ work on an ongoing basis. By
deploying PeerScore OPPE, hospitals and ASC groups can monitor their
physicians’ performance with summary evaluations of each physician’s
performance using PeerScore’s numerical and color coded scoring system.
PeerScore’s patent-pending technology allows hospitals to benchmark and compare
the performance of their practitioners to specialists at other hospitals in
their group or nationally.
PeerScore OPPE helps hospitals and ASCs:
- Evaluate their physicians’
performance continuously using an external peer review workflow
- Develop a cost-effective alternative
to difficult and time-consuming data collection and analysis
- Overcome specialist staffing
constraints required for valid evaluation
- Meet mandated accreditation
standards requiring evidence-based peer review
- Benchmark their physicians’
performance against their peers within the hospital’s practice or
department, as well as compare its physicians nationally
PeerScore FPPE
AllMed’s solution for focused
reviews, PeerScore FPPE(SM), meets or exceeds The Joint Commission
and other accreditation body standards for evidence-based peer review. It
provides an in-depth solution for hospitals and ASCs performing focused reviews
on both individual doctors and practice groups. By deploying PeerScore FPPE,
organizations can gain an in-depth understanding of an individual physician’s
performance for a single cases and groups of cases.
Hospitals and ACSs use PeerScore FPPE for:
- Following up on any issues
identified during PeerScore OPPE case reviews
- Credentialing new doctors
- Re-credentialing existing doctors
- Adding privileges
- Managing sentinel events or
other concerns objectively
- A substitute for physician proctoring
“PeerScore OPPE and PeerScore FPPE set new standards
for ongoing and focused reviews,” Rowe said. “By using PeerScore, hospitals and
ASCs can set not only performance benchmarks, but define expectations for all
physicians and increase their accountability. In addition, PeerScore lays the
foundation for implementing other initiatives, such as physician pay for
performance.”
About AllMed Healthcare Management
Founded in 1995,
AllMed is a URAC-accredited independent review organization (IRO) serving
leading hospital groups, ASCs, insurance payers, and medical management firms,
nationwide. More than 400 licensed and board-certified physicians in active practice
conduct AllMed’s evidence-based peer reviews. The company’s PeerScore products
meet or exceed The Joint Commission standards for OPPE and FPPE evaluations. More
information about AllMed can be found on the company’s Web site at www.allmedmd.com.
