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.
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...
CMS' revisions present credentialing issues and decisions for hospitals reagrding the process by which therapeutic diets may be ordered. In this article we identify some of the issues that must be considered before hospitals can implement changes to their credentialing process in order to...
As MaineHealth and credentialing partner Synernet get standardized privilege sets ready to go, MSB spoke to Robert E. McArtor, MD, CMO of the eight-hospital system, about some of the keys to the success of this initiative. Among them are consensus, collaboration, and listening...
National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week starts Sunday. Although I hope you’re not in the office on Sunday, I also hope your medical staff services department gets a week of star treatment from physicians, other departments, and the organizations you deal with every day. To celebrate the...
