Preventing Preventable Headlines: 5 Credentialing Essentials That Can Safeguard Patient Safety

Putting the right credentialing protocols in place can safeguard what’s most precious—your patients’ safety, your organization’s reputation, and your practitioners’ wellbeing.

Joint Commission Changes Reappointment Cycle to 3 Years

In November, The Joint Commission changed its reappointment cycle standards—moving from a two-year to a three-year cycle for reappointment/re-privileging, or for a period required by law or regulation if shorter.

From Inaccessible to Attainable: How Chartis Clinical Quality Solutions teamed with a Critical Access Hospital to Achieve Compliance and Improve Quality Through Ongoing External Case Review in Support of OPPE

How Chartis Clinical Quality Solutions teamed with a Critical Access Hospital to Achieve Compliance and Improve Quality Through Ongoing External Case Review in Support of OPPE

From Concerned to Assured: How Chartis Clinical Quality Solutions Partnered with an Ambulatory Surgical Center to Ensure Sound Clinical Judgment and Appropriateness of Diagnosis and Treatments through an External Medical Necessity Review

How Chartis Clinical Quality Solutions partnered with an ambulatory surgical center to ensure sound clinical judgment and appropriateness of diagnosis and treatments through an external medical necessity review.

Mitigating Healthcare Labor Shortages, Even Before They Happen, with Tim Barger

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted healthcare organizations nationwide to think more strategically about workforce strategies, including interim staffing solutions. A contingent workforce strategy can help organizations navigate these labor challenges with greater ease and minimal operational

Credentialing & Privileging Optimization and Alignment

The Medical Staff Services Department (MSSD) is central to organization-wide success. Discover how to optimize and align your MSSD to improve performance.

From Underperforming to Powerhouse: How a Multi-Hospital Health System Operationalized High-Performing Medical Staff Services

This organization teamed with us to transform Medical Staff Services through outsourcing the entirety of the functions managed by the department.

Establishing and Leveraging a CVO: A Gateway to Safety, Savings, and Simplification

A Credentialing Verification Organization (CVO) model offers financial benefits for hospitals and improved efficiency for providers and patients. Our expert explains the advantages.

Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE): To Report or Not Report. National Practitioner Data Bank’s New Definition of “Investigation.”

Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE): Report or not? NPDB’s new definition of “investigation.” Protect medical staff while making the most of FPPE.

10 Essential Steps to Successfully Achieve Criteria-based Privileging Across a System

As healthcare becomes integrated through M&A, one of the most difficult challenges for a system or network to achieve is an effective system-wide criteria based privileging methodology.