MedEval and MedScore
External Medical Peer Review for Hospitals & ASCs
Ongoing evaluation of hospital practitioners is a requisite to assuring excellence in physician performance and the highest quality in patient care. It is also essential to an organization’s survival, and to an organization maintaining its accreditation and reputation.
New Joint Commission peer review and credentialing standards now demand that hospitals implement more rigorous procedures in order to ensure accountability and improve practitioner performance. Such reviews also provide the transparency needed to build public confidence, attract patients and ensure the health and viability of the hospital itself. The problem is that peer review committees composed primarily of in-house personnel oftentimes lack the resources to achieve their performance improvement goals; particularly as it relates to surgeons. Social and professional relationships lead to conflicts of interest. And since most medical staff professionals are already overburdened, peer evaluations are either given short shrift or don’t get done at all.
Move from compliance to high performance, with PeerPoint services from AllMed. MedEval and MedScore offer a complete solution for focused and ongoing professional practice evaluations (FPPE and OPPE). Rather than using external peer review to react to negative events, Med Eval and MedScore ensure a proactive, systematic, and evidence-based appraisal of credentials, privileges, sentinel events and sensitive performance issues.
PeerPoint can help your hospital:
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Meet the intent of The Joint Commission’s standards regarding Focused & Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE & OPPE), as well as peer review standards of other accreditation organizations
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Gain visibility on specialist performance across all specialties and sub-specialties
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Ensure practitioner performance is consistently reviewed by board-certified specialists in active practice, with the same credentials and from similar practice settings
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Eliminate conflicts of interest and sensitivities that are inherent in many hospitals’ internal peer review processes
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Set clear expectations that all physicians’ work will be consistently and fairly subjected to peer review
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Raise transparency & accountability among practitioners
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Emphasize education and remediation, and reduce the punitive aspects of peer review
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Set the foundation for implementing Pay For Performance (P4P)
