If you ask the majority of businesses or nonprofits how they keep employee credentials updated, they will often tell you with a file cabinet, an excel spreadsheet and email. Ask those same people how sure they are that all credentials are compliant the answer will be, “I doubt it” or “I don’t know”. You are […]
Imagine this. One of your Nurses is taking care of a patient and the patient passes away. The patient’s family is upset and decides to hire a lawyer to investigate. The first thing the lawyer looks at is your nurses’ credentials and during that investigation, it is uncovered that numerous credentials (think licenses, certifications, immunizations, […]
Any company that has nurses or allied professional employees or even subcontractors/suppliers knows that keeping updated credentials like licenses, certification, immunizations, insurance policies, training documents, HR documents, etc. is challenging. A nurse for example could have 20 different credentials that are expiring at various intervals and times that by say 50 nurse employees, and you […]
Type in Credentialing Software into your search bar and you will see tons of advertised physician credentialing software companies but what is the difference between what you see on that list and Credential Agent? Credentialing Software is Different for Dr’s Then for Nurses or Allied Professionals The difference is that all those credentialing companies are […]
It really is a smart move for any home healthcare company wanting to keep employee credentials updated using software. 1st Class Care, which is a new startup home healthcare company decided that they wanted to make sure they kept their nurse’s credentials such as licenses, certifications, immunizations, background checks and HR documents updated correctly and […]
Have you ever lost a key employee who was really organized and replaced her with someone else who wasn’t? Your first reaction is that you then realize how good that first person was at their job and wish you had them back. The second reaction is that you then realize that you are going to […]
It really boggles the mind the risks a company takes when it comes to outdated employee or vendor credentials. There is no doubt that if one were to audit any organizations in the US one would find a large percentage of outdated and missing required employee and vendor credentials. As a company that provides credentialing […]
There is often so much going on in a company that what gets a managers attention is what can make your company money, what costs your company money and what keeps you customers happy but sometimes, there are things that just need to be done right. In certain industries like healthcare, engineering, consulting, and other […]
Recently announced there is now a major case against a Hospital and a temporary staffing company due to a healthcare professional failing to have a Hep B immunization shot resulting in numerous patients being infected with the serious Hep B desease. The staffing company will probably go out of business and the Hospital will have […]
A major worldwide food supplier/distributor with 6,000 vendors has selected Credential Agent’s supplier management software (www.credentialagent.com) to allow the company to better keep critical information and documents updated. In the past, the major food supplier would make its suppliers aware of what is required expecting the suppliers to keep the proper information\credentials updated on their own. Occasionally, […]