Check with your accrediting organization and local or state boards of pharmacy to ensure that your hospitals understand the expectations for how often staff must demonstrate core competencies in sterile drug compounding. The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has revised its standard under USP <797...
In an insightful Q&A with Mathieu O. Gaulin, CPMSM, CPCS, senior director of professional medical staff services at Boston Children’s Hospital, we delve into the intricate relationship between credentialing processes and his overarching strategic goals.
Due to changing healthcare technologies, increasing specialization, and the growth of individual healthcare institutions, organizations must routinely evaluate new procedures to establish criteria for privileging practitioners in that area. It is often difficult to determine whether a privilege...
Check out (and contribute to) the latest conversations on topics ranging from credentialing a pathologist assistant to choosing the best medical staff member category.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 1
Happy one-year anniversary of The Joint Commission’s move to update its time frame for evaluating licensed practitioners’ ability to provide care, treatment, and services from two years to three years. Although healthcare facilities do not have to make the change, many are. And it’s been a year...
Credentialing leaders and MSPs naturally care about the well-being of physicians. Their relationship with healthcare providers should go beyond the various transactions of reappointments, paperwork, and database entry and verification. That’s why it’s a good idea to keep up with the latest on...
