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Play a part in building and test driving the next credentialing innovation
How often have you thrown up your hands in frustration when juggling the daily tasks of credentialing multiple providers, verifying physician competence, gathering data and documentation from multiple sources, and keeping up with the latest accreditation developments? What would you build if provided the resources to create your ultimate credentialing solution? Now is the time to stop daydreaming. Partner with the Credentialing Resource Center to develop the next innovation in credentialing—your one stop for all the credentialing tools and resources you need. If you are interested in working with fellow credentialing professionals, consultants from The Greeley Company, and the editorial team at HCPro to create a resource that provides solutions to your top credentialing challenges email me at eberry@hcpro.com with your name and contact information.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Best,
Emily Berry
Associate Editor
October 12 due date for CRC Symposium speaker applications
The deadline for CRC Symposium speaker applications is almost here!
Each year our Greeley consultants share expert credentialing and privileging advice during the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium. In 2010, we want to share the stage with talented voices from the field. Below are the four tracks we’ll cover at next year’s symposium at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV, May 6-7.
If you’re interested in presenting, please copy the fill information at the bottom of the page into an email, fill it out, and email it to Associate Editor Emily Berry at eberry@hcpro.com by October 12, 2009.
- Privileging Challenges and Solutions: Presentations in this track will provide attendees with the tools to master privileging trends for low-volume providers, advanced practice professionals, telemedicine providers, and create a common template from which to draft each practitioner’s privileges.
- Practitioner Competency Data: Presentations in this track will help participants create manageable and complete FPPE and OPPE documents using data collected from various departments, build working relationships with other departments to avoid duplicate work, and compile competency data to provide accurate practitioner assessments.
- Credentialing and the Law: Presentations in this track will explore legal do’s and don’t’s using case precedent as well as state and federal laws as a guide. Attendees will learn how to draft policies to avoid lawsuits and what evidence to present to win them.
- Medical Staff Services Department: Presentations in this track will aid the management of the medical staff services department (MSSD)—the ultimate hub of a practitioner’s universe. Session attendees will learn how to keep the MSSD running smoothly through budgeting, managing MSPs, organizing meetings, drafting bylaws, purchasing credentialing software and transitioning to a paperless office, acing an accreditation survey, and more.
Name:
Title:
Credentials:
Organization:
Phone number:
E-mail address:
Please summarize your background/qualifications in medical staff services or the organized medical staff:
Please list any previous speaking or presentation experience:
Please list the topic(s) you are interested in presenting and give a brief description of what you would cover:
Credentialing Resource Center Symposium Speaker Application
Calling all medical staff professionals and medical staff leaders: Have you mastered your organization’s OPPE process? Do you have a solid medical staff leader orientation process to ensure new members have the tools they need to tackle the challenges they will face? If so, we want to hear from you!
Each year our Greeley consultants share expert credentialing and privileging advice during the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium. In 2010, we want to share the stage with talented voices from the field. Below are the four tracks we’ll cover at next year’s symposium at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV, May 6-7.
If you’re interested in presenting, please copy the fill information at the bottom of the page into an email, fill it out, and email it to Associate Editor Emily Berry at eberry@hcpro.com by October 12, 2009.
- Privileging Challenges and Solutions: Presentations in this track will provide attendees with the tools to master privileging trends for low-volume providers, advanced practice professionals, telemedicine providers, and create a common template from which to draft each practitioner’s privileges.
- Practitioner Competency Data: Presentations in this track will help participants create manageable and complete FPPE and OPPE documents using data collected from various departments, build working relationships with other departments to avoid duplicate work, and compile competency data to provide accurate practitioner assessments.
- Credentialing and the Law: Presentations in this track will explore legal do’s and don’t’s using case precedent as well as state and federal laws as a guide. Attendees will learn how to draft policies to avoid lawsuits and what evidence to present to win them.
- Medical Staff Services Department: Presentations in this track will aid the management of the medical staff services department (MSSD)—the ultimate hub of a practitioner’s universe. Session attendees will learn how to keep the MSSD running smoothly through budgeting, managing MSPs, organizing meetings, drafting bylaws, purchasing credentialing software and transitioning to a paperless office, acing an accreditation survey, and more.
Name:
Title:
Credentials:
Organization:
Phone number:
E-mail address:
Please summarize your background/qualifications in medical staff services or the organized medical staff:
Please list any previous speaking or presentation experience:
Please list the topic(s) you are interested in presenting and give a brief description of what you would cover:
Credentialing Resource Center Symposium Speaker Application
Calling all medical staff professionals and medical staff leaders: Have you mastered your organization’s OPPE process? Do you have a solid medical staff leader orientation process to ensure new members have the tools they need to tackle the challenges they will face? If so, we want to hear from you!
Each year our Greeley consultants share expert credentialing and privileging advice during the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium. In 2010, we want to share the stage with talented voices from the field. Attached are the four tracks we’ll cover at next year’s symposium at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV, May 6-7.
If you’re interested in presenting, please click here to fill out the form and email it to Associate Editor Emily Berry at eberry@hcpro.com by October 12, 2009.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
CRC Symposium: Photo slideshow
Our 12th annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium may be finished, but the lessons learned will help you improve your medical staff services department throughout the year. Here are some of the photo highlights from this year’s show.
The weather is always beautiful in Las Vegas, and the fountains outside Caesars Palace make the view even more spectacular.
Moving inside, the colorful hotel registration desk helped welcome attendees to the conference.
Did you have a chance to stop by our bookstore? We were giving away complimentary copies of our newsletters and had special discounts for all of our books. (Yes, that’s me smiling next to Briefings on Credentialing.)
If you’ve attended a Core Privilege Plus demonstration, chances are you’ve heard Bryan Robbins, a specialist at CACTUS Software speaking. Attendees could meet the man behind the voice by stopping by the CACTUS booth in the exhibit hall.
Many of you also had a chance to say hello to our many speakers between sessions. (From left to right: Mark Smith, MD, MBA, CMSL; Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS; Emily Berry; and Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS.)
We hope you enjoyed this year’s show. We look forward to seeing you at next year’s conference, May 6-7, 2010 at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas!
CRC Symposium: Mark Smith, MD reports live from Las Vegas
Greetings from the Credentialing Resource Center in sunny Las Vegas, NV! This morning kicked off our 12th annual Symposium. Listen to Mark Smith, MD, MBA, CMSL give participants a preview of what’s to come over the next several days.
Just for fun: How are you spending your CRC Symposium downtime?
This week’s poll question is a Credentialing Resource Center Symposium exclusive. We want to know how are you planning to spend your downtime at the CRC Symposium in sunny Las Vegas.
If you’ve got more fun time suggestions for your peers, let them know in the comment boxes below. Viva Las Vegas!
Meet our newest Briefings on Credentialing columnist
Those of you blog readers who are also Credentialing Resource Center subscribers may have noticed some changes to the back page of your Briefings on Credentialing publication this month–we welcomed a new columnist!
And now for the formal introduction, meet Becky Cochran, CPMSM, CPCS. (That’s her next to Governor Bill Richardson in the photo to the right).
Becky is the director of medical staff services at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, NM. She also serves as an expert witness in medical staff cases, and shares some of the advice she’s learned from those experiences with readers in her column.
In 2005, she became the first MSP in the nation appointed to a state medical board when Governor Bill Richardson appointed her to serve as a public member of the New Mexico Medical Board. Later that year, NAMSS awarded her the ICON Award in recognition of her inspirational commitment, for success in heightening awareness of NAMSS, and elevating the esteem of the medical services profession.
Welcome, Becky!
Sample letter for the Criteria-Based Core Privileges seminar
In addition to the sample letter Emily posted below explaining the merits of the CRC symposium you can use with your superiors, we’ve also created a similar letter for the Criteria-Based Core Privileges seminar to be held May 13, one day before the CRC symposium begins. Though it’s drafted as a “stand-alone” letter, it can easily be combined with the CRC letter given that the two events are held at the same location.
More information on the seminar, including the cost, can be found by clicking here. Let me know if you have any questions about the agenda, or any other aspects of this one-day seminar.
The letter can be found by clicking here: criteria-based-core-privileges-seminar-letter
Todd Morrison
Managing Editor
Use our sample letter to get to the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium
Since last fall, we’ve been working on pulling together the various pieces of our 12th Annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium May 14-15 in Las Vegas, so I’m eager to have all of you attend the show.
I know hospital training and travel budgets are hurting these days, yet I truly believe our symposium has an important line-up with great speakers, not to mention the pre- and post-conference shows. I’ve attached a letter that may help convince your boss to let you come the symposium – click symposium-letter-draft. You can either print out the letter or cut-and-paste its contents into an e-mail.