While artificial intelligence might be headline news, healthcare and medicine will remain the domain of human caregivers for a long time to come. Doctors to diagnose illnesses, nurses to care for patients. Surgeons to perform operations, lab techs to identify diseases. Receptionists, pharmacists...
Review Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act (EMTALA) requirements with your emergency departments, especially as the season for flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has the potential to flood hospital beds again.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 1
Check with your accrediting organization and local or state boards of pharmacy to ensure that your hospitals understand the expectations for how often staff must demonstrate core competencies in sterile drug compounding. The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has revised its standard under USP <797...
In an insightful Q&A with Mathieu O. Gaulin, CPMSM, CPCS, senior director of professional medical staff services at Boston Children’s Hospital, we delve into the intricate relationship between credentialing processes and his overarching strategic goals.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 1
Happy one-year anniversary of The Joint Commission’s move to update its time frame for evaluating licensed practitioners’ ability to provide care, treatment, and services from two years to three years. Although healthcare facilities do not have to make the change, many are. And it’s been a year...
Credentialing leaders and MSPs naturally care about the well-being of physicians. Their relationship with healthcare providers should go beyond the various transactions of reappointments, paperwork, and database entry and verification. That’s why it’s a good idea to keep up with the latest on...
The phenomenon of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has become as common as it is complex. With large networks expanding their reach, the implications of such corporate maneuvers extend far beyond balance sheets and boardrooms, touching the very heart of community healthcare delivery—the...
Hospitals are increasingly adopting technologies that improve efficiency and make life easier for case managers—at least in theory. Machine-learning programs can improve workflow, flag high-risk patients, or automatically send needed documentation to post-acute facilities. In addition, hospitals...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 32, Issue 12
Medicare has merged the CMS-855R into the CMS-855I paper enrollment application. Find out what this means for your organization and your practitioners.
Healthcare workers are no strangers to burnout and suicide as many suffer from emotional exhaustion and mental and physical stress due to the demanding nature of their job, including long working hours, high-stress environments, and death in extreme cases.
