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AllMedMarketingPage External Peer Review as a Risk Minimization Strategy
 
AllMedLink Kadlec Decision Reversed by Appeals Court
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on May 8, 2008, (No. 06030745) reversed the District Court's opinion which included a holding that Lakeview Medical Center and Lakeview Anesthesia Associates had a duty to disclose to Kadlec Medical Center that Dr. Berry, a former partner with LAA, had a drug problem after Kadlec made inquiry after Berry applied to Kadlec for medical staff membership.
AllMedFile Anti-SLAPP Statutes and Peer Review
ALM Law Journal Newsletter Special Edition: California Supreme Court Renders Historic Decision.
AllMedFile Medical Staff in Need of Change
Explore a revolutionary way to reorganize your medical staff. With demands on hospital medical staffs growing more complex, the days of volunteer or popularly elected medical staff leaders are fading fast. Take a look at the history of medical staff leadership and learn about dramatic changes that could make your medical staff function more smoothly.
AllMedFile Amendment 7: The Patients’ Right To Know Flexes Its Muscle In Florida
The Florida “Patients’ Right to Know Amendment” or as it is often referred to “Amendment 7,” continues to eviscerate the peer review privileges which prevented the disclosure of information revealed during the course of a peer review proceeding brought against a physician or other healthcare provider in Florida.
AllMedArticle New California Statute AB 632 Could Weaken California’s Well Established Medical Staff Peer Review Process
 
AllMedFile Credentialing Case Law Trends—Who’s Winning, Who’s Losing, and Why.
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AllMedFile Duty to Disclose in Illinois After Kadlec?
In the wake of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent reversal of the Kadlecdecision, many hospitals are left questioning whether laws in their state create a duty to disclose information when responding to third-party inquiries about current and former medical staff physicians who have documented quality of care or impairment problems. As you may recall, because the Fifth Circuit’s interpretation of this issue turned on state law in Louisiana, the analysis of whether a duty to disclose exists will vary from state to state.
AllMedFile Peer Review Primer; Part I: What Is Hospital Peer Review, Anyway?
Community hospitals and the doctors who supply the patient care in the hospitals have a symbiotic relationship. Both independent and co-dependent, they need each other to survive. The complicated character of that relationship is most clearly demonstrated through the hospital peer review process; that is, the procedure by which the hospital and the physicians regulate the quality of care provided by the physicians to the hospital patients.
AllMedFile Peer Review Primer; Part II: The Organized Medical Staff. How A Doctor Requests and Receives Privileges To Treat Hospital Patients
Community hospitals and the doctors who supply the patient care in the hospitals have a symbiotic relationship. Both independent and co-dependent, they need each other to survive. The complicated character of that relationship is most clearly demonstrated through the hospital peer review process; that is, the procedure by which the hospital and the physicians regulate the quality of care provided by the physicians to the hospital patients.
AllMedFile Codes of Conduct and Medical Staff Peer Review
This 7 page article written by Steven Schnier from Hanson Bridgett LLP, discusses recent "Codes of Conduct" that The Joint Commission has put forth for following up on sentinel events.
AllMedPremiumFile Learn the Codes of Conduct and Medical Staff Peer Review with this Guide
This 7 page article written by Steven Schnier from Hanson Bridgett LLP, discusses recent "Codes of Conduct" that The Joint Commission has put forth for following up on sentinel events.
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