The medical executive committee (MEC) at Better Times Hospital has proportional representation. Many years ago (no one is sure exactly when), the MEC agreed that each of the 15 clinical departments should have at least one seat on the MEC regardless of its size. For every...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 21, Issue 2
Access to the Internet has made it easier to track down credentialing information. The real job for credentialing specialists has become verifying the validity of such information. Training MSPs to spot the difference between credible and useless information is key to making the...
Starting with the next edition of The Joint Commission's Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals to be published this spring, The Joint Commission will change the term "disruptive behavior" to "behaviors that undermine a culture of safety." The accrediting agency...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 4
Legislation pending in New York and Tennessee seeks to require physicians to refer to a drug monitoring database prior to issuing any controlled substance prescriptions.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 4
William F. Mills, M.D., MMM, CPE, FAAFP, CMSL, senior vice president of quality and professional affairs for the Upper Allegheny Health System, will be speaking about using patient satisfaction scores to drive improvement at the 2012 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium. In anticipation of...
