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• 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.

  Happy Thanksgiving!

• 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.

• Editor's clarification: Encrypted flash drives

  In last week’s column, Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS wrote that her hospital was looking into encrypted flash drives. 

  To clarify, the reason for the encrypted flash drives is so that no additional information can be added onto the drive. For example, if the hospital provides a practitioner with a flash drive containing policies and procedures, the hospital wants to ensure the practitioner can not use the flash drive to download confidential patient health information (PHI) and risk violating HIPAA regulations. Although the practitioner could potentially download documents containing PHI onto a personal flash drive not provided by the hospital, the hospital wants to take extra precautions and not provide a mechanism that would allow for this potential HIPAA violation.