Medical errors can be devastating. For patients and their families, an error can be a life-altering or even fatal event. But for physicians and other healthcare professionals, a medical error can have different types of consequences.
How can MSPs reduce the number of days to process a credentialing file while not rushing through the process and letting problem practitioners slip through the cracks? One way is to automate steps of their credentialing process.
CMS officials have been busy this summer updating Conditions of Participation, proposing new CoPs and issuing guidance that impacts a variety of providers.
Find a pharmacist, provider, or infection preventionist (IP) with a good grounding in antibiotic stewardship to tackle the responsibilities and requirements set out in six new hospital survey tags recently announced by CMS. Better yet, form a team of those experts.
With monkeypox cases climbing in each state, sometimes dramatically, hospitals should be creating and implementing a plan that includes education of both staff and patients, say experts.
