NATIONAL CREDENTIALING FORUM

Friday, February 11, 2000 Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites, Sarasota Longboat Key, FL - 9am-5pm Meeting Minutes

Participant list attached.

Carol Walker welcomed participants and thanked everyone for their attendance. She thanked Beckett Shady-King, Sarasota County Medical Society and Bexar CVO, Inc, for hosting the meeting. She then requested everyone to introduce him or herself and share information concerning their organizations activities.

During the introductions, the NAMSS representative announced that NAMSS continues to offer educational seminars expanding their topics to meet the needs of their varied membership. The HPCVA representative announced that they are continuing to organize their organization and their primary goal would be to address legislative issues related to credentialing. The MSCVOA representative announced that they continue to reorganize their organization to allow them to expand membership recognizing that the needs of CVO’s operated by medical societies have and continue to change. The AOA representative announced that the AOA continues to offer profiles to credential Osteopaths through their website.

Carol Walker announced that the JCAHO representative was unable to attend the meeting but emailed a report on some general information concerning the JCAHO which was attached to the agenda.

Sharon Adams, Gadrian Corporation, presented information concerning legislation in the numerous states addressing credentialing and/or the adoption of a standard application. An overview of Credentialing Bills was provided at the meeting along with information concerning the resources used to obtain the information.

Dr. Stephen Permison, U.S. Public Health Service, provided a brief overview of the Federal Credentialing Program. There was much discussion concerning HIPDB and the difficulty organizations were having getting answers to their concerns. Reference was made to an article in the February MGMA Magazine which provided a good summary of HIPDB. Due to Dr. Permison’s current position as a consultant he was not able to address the concerns but did provided appropriate contacts for both the NPDB and HIPDB. He also suggested that, if appropriate arrangements could be made, a joint National Credentialing Forum February 11, 2000– Page 2 meeting be held with the Forum and his group who will be meeting in DC in July of 2000. Members present indicated their interest in this special meeting. Dr. Permison will work with Carol to announce the meeting if arranged.

Mary Shaw, Director of Information Technology, Copic Companies, presented her comments on future technology standards. Among other comments, she stated that digital signature guidelines were being developed and the ABA Guidelines were being used as a reference. The ABA Guidelines can be found on their web site aba.org.

Carol Walker announced that Tom Murray, AMAP representative, was unable to attend the meeting. The AMA has stopped all activity involving AMAP due to the operating loss of the program and will take the next six months to re-evaluate the AMAP program.

Discussion was held concerning the continued existence of the National Credentialing Forum and whether participants felt it served a purpose. Participants again agreed that the meeting does offer valuable information and networking opportunities and would like to see the Forum continue meeting. It was suggested that the meeting be extended to a day and one half to two days. Mary Jo Quinn representing the Bexar CVO volunteered to host the meeting in San Antonio, TX. Ms. Walker indicated that she would mail a notice to all Forum participants announcing the meeting to be held in February 2001.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

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