AllMed Healthcare Management

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Standards Expand External Peer Review Use by Hospitals

Published in Hospital Business Week, April 22nd, 2007

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards for 2007 have broadened the need for hospitals to use external peer review, according to Dr. Skip Freedman, Executive Medical Director at AllMed Healthcare Management, a national Independent Review Organization (IRO).

Peer review is an internal process by which hospitals assure that its doctors are competent and well trained enough to safely treat patients and provide the best quality of care. Hospitals turn to unbiased third parties like IROs to evaluate cases involving sentinel events and doctor errors; particularly when internal conflicts of interest preclude an objective evaluation...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2007-04-22)

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