Heard and seen in Las Vegas
“We want to be change leaders, not change followers.”
Barbara Warstler, MBA, CPMSM, FASPR, makes the case for moving to a paperless medical staff services department.
“There’s nothing worse than 20 different processes and you have to figure out what’s going on with hospital A, B, and C.”
Heather Johnson, CPCS, outlines the benefits of a systemwide credentials verification organization.
“Medical leaders can’t do all of the OPPE/FPPE, but they can influence and participate in the process.”
Mark Smith, MD, MBA, FACS, discusses the physician leader’s role in OPPE/FPPE.
Congratulations to Julie Barclay; Olivia Chávez, CPCS; and Lizzette Dominguez for winning our CRC Symposium mobile app contest. These attendees earned free HCPro books for posting the best photos and status updates to the conference app.
Our veteran faculty, Todd Sagin, MD, JD; Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS; Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS; and Mark Smith, MD, MBA, FACS; closed out the 2018 CRC Symposium with a series of vignettes depicting the events leading up to the credentialing industry’s latest noteworthy court case, Miller v. Huron.
Congratulations to Brigitte R. Workman, BA, and Suman Nooney, BE, the winners of the 2018 CRC Symposium Case Study Competition. As the winners, Workman and Nooney presented their case, Creating Consolidated Data the Easy Way: How Providence St. Joseph Health System Used Provider MDM to Integrate Medical Staff and Credentialing Processes, outlining how they used master data management techniques to successfully integrate medical staff and credentialing data from more than 50 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory clinics across multiple states.
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