“The increasing requests for new privileges, new technology and new procedures is inevitable and a necessary part of the need to continually innovate and improve the healthcare services available,” the whitepaper states. “What is paramount is that a systematic process is created to carefully evaluate the complex and often competing interests so that these new privileges can be introduced safely and prudently.”
According to The Greeley Company, the facility should ask the practitioner to provide the following five points of information when they request to add a new procedure or use new technology:
• Rational for the new procedure/technology
• Review of the procedure’s safety and efficacy and analysis of alternative treatments
• Explanation of related cost of the equipment, staffing and training necessary to support the new process
• Documented experiences of other organizations with the new process, including privileging criteria
• Analysis of challenges encountered when introducing the privileges elsewhere
“Providing this information at the onset of the request allows healthcare leaders to more easily determine whether to consider the privilege/technology and to invest further time and resources into fully analyzing the request,” the whitepaper states.
