We are currently seeking industry experts to speak at our upcoming conference, the National Provider Enrollment Forum, featuring a new credentialing and privileging track! The Forum will take place on September 21 and 22 at the Sheraton Nashville Grand Downtown in Nashville, TN. To apply, click here and fill out the application. We have extended the deadline to Monday, March 1!

Presentation topics could include:

• Enrollment with Medicare, Medicaid, or private payers
• Revalidations and maintaining enrollment
• Strategies for remote work
• Considerations for telemedicine practitioners
• Temporary, emergency, and disaster privileges
• Peer review, including ongoing professional practice evaluation and focused professional practice evaluation
• Professional development for enrollment and credentialing professionals

Healthcare accounted for the largest share of publicly disclosed data breaches in 2020, according to a report recently released by cyber-security firm Tenable. To reach the conclusion in its 2020 Threat Landscape Retrospective, Tenable analyzed public breach disclosures from January to October 2020 to identify trends in breach data. In the first 10 months of 2020, Tenable found 730 breach events resulting in over 22 billion records exposed.

The past 11 months have been challenging, exhausting, and endless for healthcare professionals across the globe, as Medical Staff Briefing (MSB) has covered extensively.MSPs have had to adapt processes repeatedly to keep up with changing regulations, exemptions, hospital capacity, supply scarcities, and staffing shortages. To learn how one medical staff services department has coped throughout the pandemic, MSB sat down with Maggie Palmer, MSA, CPCS, CPMSM, vice president of medical staff professional services and regulatory affairs at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas.