The Greeley Company, Newport Credentialing and SkillSurvey are helping healthcare providers to start automating hiring and credentialing to streamline and ultimately accelerate the processes.
SkillSurvey CEO Ray Bixler, for instance, said that once his company built its first peer referencing application, it reduced clients' peer referencing processes from several weeks to just three days.
If a doctor is filling out a potential employer's application, they need to fork over some personal information, work history, degrees, where they graduated, what they'd like to accomplish once hired. They need to divulge their licenses, their certifications. It's a lot of information, and the credentialing team needs to sift through all of it.
"Once that's done, the person's still not credentialed," said Bixler. "Hospitals have these department chairs and committees that meet, and they generally don't meet more than once a month. So if the credentialing process isn't complete, it could be another 30 days. That is how the market has been served, and how it's been doing this job for decades."
With a more automated approach, the process becomes akin to using TurboTax in that software guides the credentialing team along.
"A doctor that can't get credentialed isn't going to service anybody," said Bixler. "Patients aren't getting serviced when positions aren't getting filled. And of course the hospital feels the impact because now they're not generating revenue."
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Source: Healthcare IT News (View full article)
Posted by Dan Corcoran on December 11, 2017 06:32 AM
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