Guides for Hospitals

Improve Your Peer Review Operations

This white paper was designed to help hospitals improve their peer review programs. Learn how to build effective peer review operations that improve practitioner performance and quality care.

Building Effective Peer Review Leadership and Culture

This white paper was developed to help hospitals evaluate the role of leadership and culture in establishing a peer review process that promotes accountability and transparency in order to ensure high-quality care for patients.

Improve Your Peer Review Effectiveness

This white paper was developed to help hospitals evaluate their peer review programs, and identify areas that need improvement, and adopt peer review best practices.

Reducing Overutilization of Orthopedic Surgeries

This white paper focuses on orthopedic surgeries and how reducing the number of unnecessary procedures can not only improve the efficacy of knee replacement and arthroscopy, but also prevent the significant potential risks and complications associated with the procedures.

Conflict of Interest in Peer Review

AllMed highlights how hospitals can identify and manage conflicts of interest (COI), leading to better physician performance and quality of care.

Overutilization of Spinal Fusion White Paper

This white paper is the first in a series focused on improving quality of care and reducing the clinical risk in hospitals

Overutilization, Abuse and Fraud within Cardiac Departments

This white paper was developed to explain how external peer review has been shown to overcome the issues with transparency and conflict of interest that traditional internal peer review has been unable to overcome.

CardioAudit White Paper

Hospitals are now being forced to demonstrate that cardiology procedures meet strict medical necessity criteria and guidelines. The penalties for inappropriate reimbursement are steep, with some hospitals facing millions of dollars in fines to settle suit.

EPR for High Risk Specialties

Learn how implementing an external peer review program can generate a financial return on investment by reducing adverse events that lead to malpractice claims.

ROI on External Peer Review

Developing the return on investment (ROI) for ongoing external peer review, or any process for that matter, sounds like a daunting and time-consuming task. However, there is a way it be estimated in just under an hour with a simple mathematical model that uses easily accessible hospital information.

Peer Review Scorecard

 

External Peer Review as a Risk Minimization Strategy

 

Meeting OPPE Standards

This case study explains how one Florida hospital implemented its own process to meet the Joint Commission’s new standards for Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation and use AllMed to support their process.

Best Practices in Hospital Peer Review

This whitepaper explains the problems that can arise from conducting in-house peer reviews, and how external peer review can be a great low cost alternative.

Learn about The Joint Commissions new standards

This FREE guide covers the new Joint Commission Standards and how external peer review can help keep your hospital in compliance.