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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Medical Staff > Assessing New Procedures and Technologies Assessing New Procedures and Technologies: A Guide to Credentialing, Privileging, and Dispute Resolution Jack L. Cox, MD, MMM, Vicky Searcy Softbound Book + companion CD-ROM   ISBN 1578398770 978-1578398775  HCPro October 2006 Price $149.00   This book and CD-ROM set will help you develop a standard procedure for assessing new technologies and procedures in your facility. It covers many of the business, regulatory, and organizational problems that surround the issue of incorporating an innovation into your hospital. You will receive guidance to examine and properly assess new procedures and eliminate the risks associated with implementing new procedures. As a comprehensive resource covering assessment issues beyond just practitioners' competence, this resource addresses issues such as: proper physician privileging criteria dealing with turf disputes facility resource and equipment requirements resource utilization community need and competition reimbursement issues This resource is packed with time-tested strategies and advice. It offers a well designed process for evaluating new procedures, complete with checklists, interdepartmental surveys, and ideas for research resources. It fully covers: Plan before You Privilege Adopting innovation: What’s right for your organization? Reactive versus proactive approach Should you even permit this innovation in your organization? “The five Ps” policy for hospitals that don’t yet have a policy Be wary of privileging “quick fixes” Algorithm for deciding whether to develop scope-of-practice criteria Applying the Deming Management Method to Innovation Assessment Introduction to the Deming method Eleven questions for any organization contemplating innovating Five additional questions specific to healthcare organizations Questionnaire for the physician requesting the purchase or introduction of new technology Dealing with physician resistance to policy Checklist for individuals, committees, or departments tasked with assessing a new-technology request Forming a Technology Assessment Committee Challenges of new technology Function of a technology assessment committee Five steps in developing a technology assessment committee Conflicts of interest Researching Regulatory and Medical Society Guidelines on Practitioner Training for New Technologies and Procedures Avoiding new-technology hot spots and risk areas The ongoing assessment of guidelines Sources for assessing innovations and determining practitioner-training needs Select medical societies by specialty area Select medical society recommendations for new-technology training by procedure Innovations and Intraspecialty Disputes: How to Prevent Conflict Understanding and mitigating disputes Sample privileging dispute case study: carotid artery stenting Steps toward eliminating or resolving intraspecialty conflicts Delineating clinical privileges: dispute resolution and new-technology policy Assessing Innovations, Case Study One - One facility assesses whether to offer bariatric surgery Assessing Innovations, Case Study Two - One facility grapples with an intraspecialty privileging dispute Patient safety stands at the forefront of decision-making. With so much new technologies coming down the pike, developing strategies for safe implementation will undoubtedly save lives, reputations and bottom lines. Avoid liability and develop a standard for assessing new technologies and procedures. New medical innovations are permitting physicians to treat conditions, illnesses, and injuries more effectively than ever before. Incorporating these techniques and advancements can shorten patients’ length of stay, reduce costs, and limit complications. Unfortunately, failing to properly assess these new procedures can jeopardize patient safety and disrupt clinical processes. Jack L. Cox, MD, MMM, is a senior physician executive with 18 years experience in both regional and national corporate positions, 20 years of clinical experience, and 13 years in an academic setting. His experience includes national corporate strategic planning and operations of performance improvement (cost, quality and safety), clinical product evaluation, physician practices, health plans, international publishing and speaking. Who should read this comprehensive resource? Medical directors, VPMAs, CEOs, COOs, program directors, medical staff leaders, medical staff professionals, department chairs, clinical directors, and individual physicians. With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its clients assistance and expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety. 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