AllMed's Hospital Peer Review White Paper Now Available
Best Practices in Hospital Peer Review White Paper Now Available from AllMed Healthcare Management. White Paper Provides Insight into How Independent Review Organizations (IROs) Can Help Ease Tensions in Hospital Peer Review Process
(PRWEB) October 25, 2004 -- AllMed Healthcare Management, a leading
Independent Review Organization (IRO), today announced the availability of its
white paper entitled, “Best Practices in Hospital Peer Review.” The white paper
provides insights into how Independent Review Organizations (IROs) can help ease
the tensions and conflicts typically found in today’s hospital peer review
system.
“The current hospital peer review system created by Congress was
intended to increase quality of care for all Americans,” said Dr. Skip Freedman.
“Unfortunately, Congress did not foresee that hospital peer review actually puts
physicians into an environment where political, economic and personality
conflicts can easily render the process ineffective.”
Dr. Freedman said
that when done properly, hospital peer review is a worthwhile process that can
help doctors and physicians work better together. The “Best Practices Hospital
Peer Review White Paper” offered by AllMed illustrates how this is possible and
addresses the following issues:
• Backlash – What are
the perceived penalties in today’s hospital quality management
systems?
• Risk Management – Why is peer review imperative
to risk management for the hospital?
• Use of Outside
Parties – Why it’s important to include outside parties in the hospital peer
review process?
• Benefits of Using an Independent Review
Organization (IRO) – What are the possible cost and time savings when using an
Independent Review Organization (IRO)?
The white paper also provides a
list of best practices that hospital and providers alike should be aware of to
implement an effective hospital peer review process.
More information on
AllMed’s hospital peer review services and a free, downloadabe copy of the “Best
Practices Hospital Peer Review White Paper” can be found on AllMed’s web site at
http://www.allmedmd.com.
About AllMed Healthcare
Management
Founded in 1995, AllMed is a URAC-accredited Independent Review
Organization (IRO) serving insurance payers, providers, TPAs and claims managers
nationwide. Reviews are conducted by board-certified physicians in active
practice. AllMed's growing customer base includes premier organizations, such as
Educator's Mutual Life, IMS Managed Care, Tenet Healthcare Corporation,
HealthGuard, several Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations, TriWest Healthcare
Alliance, Allianz and many other leading healthcare payers.
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