We invite you to view our informative webinar:
Creating An External Peer Review Policy
Presented By: Dr. Skip Freedman and Andrew G. Rowe.
Want to learn how to use external peer review to meet the new 2007 JCAHO standards for credentialing and performance improvement? This is the one Webinar you can't afford to miss.
Join Dr. Skip Freedman and Andrew Rowe for a hour long webinar giving you the tools you need to develop an effective peer review policy. Learn how the JCAHO Standards for 2007 are prompting hospitals to rethink and rewrite external peer review policies in order to improve quality and patient safety.
Learn strategies for:
* Ensuring Physician Competency and Reducing Doctor Errors
* Conducting Professional Practice Evaluations, Privileging and Credentialing
* Outsourcing Cases Presenting Conflicts of Interest
* Reducing Risk
* Increasing Patient Safety and Improving Quality
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards for 2007 broadened the need for hospitals to use external peer review, but unfortunately, too many hospitals do not have effective external peer review policies in place. By watching this webinar, you will learn how to develop an external review policy that improves physician performance.
The webinar agenda:
* How JCAHO's 2007 standards impact peer review and how to best comply with the new standards
* Internal peer review vs. external peer review
* Why the need for external peer review is expanding
* Using external peer review to conduct focused professional and ongoing professional practice evaluations
* Best Practices for establishing an external review policy for your organization
* Question and answer session
Who should watch it?
Anyone interested in the new JCAHO standards and improving patient safety, including: quality and risk managers, performance improvement specialists, peer review nurses, medical staff and quality management consultants.
Featured Speakers
* Dr. Skip Freedman, Executive Medical Director, has years of experience successfully facilitating peer review services for hospitals and medical groups, nationwide.
* Andrew G. Rowe, CEO, has years of experience helping organizations to improve quality and safety.
A recorded Q&A session follows the presentation.
FREE OFFER: All viewers are given access to download a Sample External Peer Review Policy and a Hospital Peer Review Guide.
