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- Send us your National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week photos
In this week’s column, Emily Berry, associate editor, gives tips for promoting your profession year round and makes a photo request for the blog.
- Have a Happy Thanksgiving: Credentialing Resource Center Connection will resume on December 4
In light of the holiday, the Credentialing Resource Center Connection will not publish next week. You will receive your next issue on December 4. For the latest credentialing news next week, please check out our blog at www.CredentialingResourceCenter.com/blog.
- Pass it on to your medical staff: New Web site has variety of learning tools
Whether you’re in charge of tracking CME hours or finding remedial education opportunities after an OPPE assessment, MSPs often find themselves introducing medical staff members to new learning tools. Keeping Up with Emergency Medicine is the latest educational Web site MSPs can introduce to medical staff members.
- Poll questions: How does your medical staff and/or hospital screen for controlled substances?
This week features two poll questions about screening for controlled substances. Feel free to answer one or both of the questions.
- Do you share educational information?
In this week’s column, Anne R. Buss, CPMSM, CPCS discusses how technology expands educational opportunities.
- HHS and The Joint Commission produce communication video
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights and The Joint Commission released a video, “Improving Patient-Provider Communication,” to help train practitioners, according to a November 11 press release.
Credentialing & Privileging Blog
Medical services professionals, credentialers, and medical staff leaders hear from Credentialing Resource Center experts in the trenches on credentialing and privileging.
Recent Posts:
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Poll question: Does your organization have different controlled substance screening requirements for contracted practitioners versus non-contracted practitioners (i.e. traditional medical staff members)?
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Fond memories of National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week
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Poll question: Does your medical staff and/or hospital screen for controlled substances?
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Physician with long history of misconduct finally caught by authorities
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National Nurse Practitioner Week highlights primary care shortage
Spotlight
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Assessing the Competency of Low-Volume Practitioners
The Joint Commission requires that hospitals verify physician competence using performance data. Yet organizations often have little or no data related to the competency of low- and no-volume physicians.
This fully updated book and CD-ROM set offers the necessary tools and strategies for medical staff leaders and professionals to manage the increasing number of low- and no-volume providers and comply with Joint Commission standards.