b>Health Care Credentialing, takes you far beyond the standard review of credentialing concerns, delivering insights into innovative ways to collect, process and assess credentialing information. No matter where you're conducting credentialing, this resource will help you keep pace with the latest ideas and approaches.Specifically, Health Care Credentialing will help you:



Take into account complex laws, regulations, and accreditation standards as they apply to credentialing
Handle disruptive care and clinical competency issues
Access information for evaluating core competencies to be used in credentialing
Stay up-to-date on relevant regulations, statutes, and accreditation standards

Health Care Credentialing helps you address the critical issues in this important arena. This unique resource delivers:



Coverage of credentialing for disaster management
Innovative processes to upgrade clinical competencies outside the credentialing system
Guidance on Board and IRB credentialing
Innovative perspectives to address behavioral problems and disruptive individuals
Cutting-edge approaches to "Pay-For-Performance" and credentialing
Ahead-of-the-curve insights into credentialing and federal requirements such as the ADA Rehab Act Section 504 and EEOC guidance

In addition, Health Care Credentialing will help you:



Keep pace with credentialing standards and relevant state and federal requirements
Launch important credentialing initiatives
Implement alternative programs to address emerging credentialing issues
And much more!

Health Care Credentialing has been updated to include:



New sections on:

New ACOs: Physician-Hospital Alignment Changes in Medical Staff Structures
Technology Utilization Competency
Innovative Bylaws and Credentialing
Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Credentialing


Discussion of changes in the proposed rule for the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB) and the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
Updated information on credentialing for advanced practice practitioners
Updated information on telemedicine
Discussion of the May 2012 revisions to the medical staff and nursing services Conditions of Participation
Updated information on the final rule for screening and program requirements for ACOs
Discussion of the following cases:

Smigaj v. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital
West Florida Regional Medical Center v. See
Gargiulo v. Baystate Health, Inc.
Effective reversal of the Archuleta decision by Utah Code section 78B-3-425
Cawthorn v. Catholic Health Initiatives Iowa Corp. d/b/a/ Mercy Hospital Medical Center
Appeal of Sternberg v. Nanticoke Memorial Hospital
Jablonsky v. Sierra Kings Healthcare District
Preau v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company
Lawnwood Medical Center Inc. v. Randall Seeger
Smith v. Cleveland Clinic
Gaalla v. Brown
State of Rhode Island Department of Health Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline, In the matter of Alexandra Thran, MD


Updated discussions of and references to The Joint Commission's 2012 Hospital Accreditation Standards