If youre a hospital organization thats looking to reduce the number of sentinel events and bad outcomes and improve patient safety and healthcare quality, consider outsourcing your peer review process to an independent review organization. An independent review organization can speed up the peer review process, identify poor performance in a rapid and objective manner, and give you key feedback on explain how to move forward with corrective action in different departments of your hospital at a relatively low cost.

For this reason, hospitals that are looking to improve their healthcare quality are adopting the best practice of hospital peer review using an outsourced independent review organization. Using an IRO helps reduce litigation, potential negative press, class action lawsuits and other punitive measures that can be the result of not solving misdiagnosis and mistreatments inside their hospitals. As a risk manager or a director of clinical quality care, can you afford not to be looking at ways to continuously improve the quality of your care and patient safety?

These are mandated activities by JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) and certainly activities that are worth rigorously pursuing.

The question is how can you do it with a limited budget? An IRO can help you to perform these duties on a cost effective basis. So if your hospital is looking to improve patient outcomes, quality of care and patient safety, and you understand how the peer review process is hampering the achievement of those objectives, call an independent review organization today and bring them into your quality of care review process. Youll find an immediate benefit to all parties. Objectivity, clarity, accountability, cost effectiveness and timeliness are just some of the benefits that your hospital can achieve when it uses an IRO for medical peer review.