While hospital quality departments have historically overseen the peer review process, today’s medical staff services teams are increasingly taking up the reins. Typically, this realignment reflects an effort to keep the medical staff—who is ultimately responsible for peer review performance and...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 3
Navigating the reappointment process, with its patchwork of expiration dates and verification expectations, can be difficult for ambulatory facilities, which often lack the dedicated credentialing presence of their acute care counterparts.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 2
Medical staff services and credentialing professionals do business with customers who want to be heard and who require expeditious action and follow-through. Professionals in our field have much to consider in their day-to-day work—regulatory compliance, adherence to medical staff bylaws,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 12
Are you considering a change in your credentialing software or a move to an automated system? Modern medical staff services departments are increasingly turning to technologies that allow MSPs...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 10
Medical staff committees are among the vehicles driving delivery of quality patient care. Effective documentation of the issues discussed and decisions made by these committees provides a road map for the medical staff and administration to follow as they pursue the organization’s mission,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 2
This issue marks my last as editor of the Credentialing Resource Center Journal. I'll be moving over to HCPro's home health and hospice product space, including the Homecare DIRECTION newsletter. Delaney Rebernik, who currently manages home health and hospice, will be...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 1
The real challenge on the outpatient side comes when we try to apply the principles of inpatient privileging to the ambulatory world. Many organizations have only a vague idea of what clinical activity is going on in physician office practices
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 12
With a few word changes, the six core competencies for clinicians can become six core competencies for MSPs. You can customize these core competencies to gauge your own job performance and to help others understand the importance of what you do and what you can offer to your organization.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 11
At our facility, the provider onboarding process has become every employee's responsibility and privilege. If you read my column in the May issue of CRCJ, you know that we have been working on this process. We assessed the changes we had made with a new physician survey and feedback...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 10
Broccoli and meetings have something in common—both elicit the response "ugh!" from me. However, like broccoli, meetings have a value: They strengthen the medical staff.
