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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.
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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: Bryan Robbins reports live from the Core Privilege Plus Software demo
Live from our Core Privilege Plus demo, Bryan Robbins, a specialist from CACTUS Software reports on what participants can expect. If you didn’t get a change to attend our lunchtime demo, but are still interested in learning more about it, contact Executive Editor Maureen Coler at mcoler@hcpro.com.
(Update: Check out the CRC photo slideshow to see a picture of Bryan!)
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!
Who’s your MSP understudy?
It’s going to be a busy week for me. Not so much because of what’s happening this week, but because of what’s not happening next week. I’ll be away from my desk attending the 12th Annual Credentialing Resource Center in Las Vegas. But my deadlines – they don’t get a break, so for the next five days I’ll be doubling up on my work.
It got me thinking about who takes over the role of MSP when you’re out of the office. I know from the conversations I’ve had in the past that most of you are probably yelling out the answer “No one!” right about now.
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.
New room rate for CRC Las Vegas
There’s great news for those thinking about attending the 12th Annual Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) Symposium at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas this May 14-15.
The new room rate for the conference is $199 a night, down from $239. The deal expires March 13.
While your facility probably won’t let you spend the savings on slots, this hopefully makes it easier to come and take advantage of the invaluable seminars and networking opportunities. Either way, we hope to see you there.
Todd Morrison
Managing Editor
Baby, it’s cold outside
I don’t know what the weather is like where you live, but it’s downright ugly today in Marblehead, Massachusetts where we work. It snowed last night, but that turned to sleet this morning, and that turned to rain, so everything is pretty much a cold, slushy mess right now.
As if I didn’t need any help thinking about warmer weather, the reminder on the CRC Web site tells me there only 128 days left until the 12th annual CRC symposium in Las Vegas. While I would be happier if the conference were this weekend, I’m looking forward to the May event regardless. No doubt things are warmer and sunnier on the strip than they are here.
Just a reminder: Register by March 13 for $100 off the standard sign up fee.
Todd Morrison
Managing Editor