The landscape of the healthcare environment is constantly changing, now more rapidly and with greater impact than ever before. One change that has invoked more debate than others has been the increase in employed physicians-that is, physicians working directly for a hospital or...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 9
Picture a patient that is being prepped for surgery: Instead of counting down from 10 as the anesthesia kicks in, the patient shouts, “Lights, camera, action!”
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 34
This week’s news includes a variety of issues affecting medical staff service leaders. I’d like to add a couple of items of interest from HCPro. For medical staff service offices grappling with assessment and privileging issues, The Medical Staff’s Guide to Overcoming Competence Assessment...
Ideally, a more comprehensive drug testing policy that included preemployment and random drug testing would be built into the medical staff bylaws as part of the privileging and credentialing process, according to the authors of an April article in the Journal of the American Medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 8
MSPs nationwide will likely encounter more international medical graduates (IMG)-both foreign-born, U.S.-trained physicians and U.S. nationals who graduated from overseas medical schools-applying for privileges in their facilities.
Event reporting in the busy environment of the ED can be a challenge, and many organizations, whether because of distractions, forgetfulness, or simply not understanding a given action's adverse effect on patients, do not do reporting well.
Drug testing upon employment is a fairly common practice across a variety of industries from blue collar manufacturing jobs to corporate administration. Additionally, many employers have developed policies around random drug testing.
There's an old saying in healthcare that no matter how great your process or policy is, if it's not documented, you didn't really do it. So often, it's the documentation of the policy-not the policy itself-that can cause the most stress, and this frequently comes into play when...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 7
The Credentialing Resource Center 2013 MSP Salary Survey confirms what previous surveys showed: MSPs hold an increasing variety of titles and their scope of work is expanding. The survey was open to CRC members and Credentialing Resource Center Connection readers from mid-March to mid-April...
