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Symposium will focus on MSSPs' responsibilities

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, April 8, 2004

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Dear credentialing colleague:
 
One conclusion is certain from our recent survey: the job of those working in the medical staff office has changed.

We recently asked medical staff services professionals (MSSPs) about their work. An amazing 97 percent of medical staff professionals say their job has evolved to include tasks beyond basic credentialing and privileging.

Among your new responsibilities and concerns are issues such as developing privileging criteria, allied health professionals' competency, handling disruptive physicians, core privileging, and physician profiling. Eighty-six percent of those who took our survey said these new responsibilities consume more of their time than traditional tasks.

Many of these issues are topics for our upcoming Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) Symposium in San Diego, CA -- an event that brings together the industry's leading experts with credentialing professionals from across the country. For example, my colleague Carol Cairns will discuss implementing and maintaining your core privileging system, Al Fritz will address credentialing low volume/no volume providers, Bob Marder will hold a workshop on physician performance profiles, and Chris Otto and Rick Sheff will speak about allied health practitioners.

I'll be joining our other experts to discuss topics such as credentialing and privileging at the crossroads, the challenge of evolving physician/hospital relationships, economic credentialing, strategic medical staff development planning, and the privileging challenges you face every day.

I hope many of you can join us April 29-30 for the seventh annual symposium "Critical Credentialing Controversies: Up to date approaches to today's toughest challenges."

As one of your colleagues told us in the survey: "It is becoming increasingly difficult to 'get the job done' effectively and efficiently as I would like due to increased responsibility." We hope we can help with our workshops and general sessions on some of today's hottest topics. I look to forward to seeing many of you in San Diego.
 
All the best,

Hugh Greeley

http://www.greeley.com/seminars/

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