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ATTN: HEALTHCARE, TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS EDITORS, REPORTERS AND FREELANCE WRITERS
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1998
Expert to Examine Credentialing And Show How The Internet Offers Physicians a Solution To This $112 Million Administrative Headache
What: More than one million days and $112 million are spent annually by physicians on credentialing activities. Learn more about the hidden costs of credentialing and why the process is critical to managing risk and ensuring quality of care at a special briefing hosted by Healthcare Credentials Management Services, Inc. (HCMS), a subsidiary of The briefing, Harnessing the Internet to Improve Efficiencies in Healthcare, will feature a demonstration of appSTATSM, a new Internet-based technology that improves efficiencies and helps cuts these costs by almost half.
When: Tuesday, April 28, 1998
8:30 a.m. - Continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Harnessing the Internet to Improve Efficiency in Healthcare
9:15 a.m. - appSTATSM demonstration
9:30 a.m. - Question and answer session
Where: The Renaissance Chicago Hotel, Seine Room 1 West Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois
Who: Mark Kulik, president, HCMS, Inc.
Background: Healthcare Credentials Management Services, Inc. (HCMS), a subsidiary of MMI Companies, Inc., is the nation's largest provider of credentials verification services and the first to develop online, direct access to a database of more than 900,000 physicians. HCMS is certified by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for ten out of ten credentials verification services. Designed to meet NCQA, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), and the American Accreditation Healthcare Commission (AAHC - formerly the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission, or URAC) standards, appSTATSM and the other technological solutions from HCMS not only help ensure quality, but also meet the need to lower the cost and reduce the turnaround time of the credentials verification process by days or even months.
Deerfield-based MMI Companies, Inc. is an international healthcare risk management company with more than 20 years experience providing a wide range of products and services that help the healthcare industry enhance its performance and manage risks associated with the delivery of care.
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