Concerns about the safety of outpatient surgery centers have mushroomed since the highly publicized death of Joan Rivers in September following routine throat procedures at a year-old free-standing center located in Manhattan. The number of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) has increased...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 12
It's been said that you can't manage what you can't measure. Therefore, time management starts with time measurement. For MSPs, logging tasks and the time devoted to each can also help others understand just what happens in the medical staff services department.
Onboarding can be an arduous process for physician leadership and medical staff service departments (MSSD), even when things go smoothly. More and more, organizations are hearing about the provider experience of onboarding--including their frustration when application...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 12
In a traditional medical staff services department (MSSD), everyone works in the same building, often in the same office. However, that is starting to change, and MSPs must be prepared to work on or manage virtual teams, according to a session at the NAMSS National Educational...
Next week, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) will deploy enhancements aimed at improving users’ experience with the Data Bank system. They include streamlined filtering and selection processes for Primary Occupation, which previously required users to search a long, complicated list...
To celebrate National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week, the CRC blog has featured questions and answers on topics such as credentialing physicians in hospital-owned clinics, access to employed physicians’ contracts, and medical staff...