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Measuring the wealth in credentialing

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, November 30, 2006

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I hope that you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday.  Thanksgiving is when I frequently recall a lesson learned when I was a child from an elderly friend of my family.  Even though she was not a wealthy woman in the ways we typically define wealthy, she taught us routinely to list those things that we were rich in.  She would state, for example, that she was rich in drinking glasses, books, cats, and chores.  You get the picture-riches can come from many areas in our life.

Using the definition of "rich" as "existing in large quantities in plentiful supply," I thought it would be nice this week to list some would be "riches" for those involved in credentialing and privileging:

1)      networking opportunities

2)      accreditation standards

3)      regulatory requirements

4)      locum tenens

5)      requests for new technology and procedures

6)      allied health professionals

7)      teleradiologists

8)      privileging conflicts

9)      paper

10)  internet sites beneficial to credentialing

11)  meetings

12)  emails

13)  reference requests

14)  laundry lists

15)  low- and no-volume providers

16)  expanded responsibilities for medical service professionals

17)  communication skills

I'm sure you can think of many other areas where you are rich in the field of credentialing and privileging. Some of these you certainly are thankful for.  If there are items identified where you'd rather not be quite so rich in and you identify that can establish a more effective and efficient process, tackle those areas (i.e. paper, by implementing a paperless system) and see what your "rich" list looks like a year from now.

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