Credentialing Dashboards Keep Staffs on Task, Better Communicate Status

UNION CITY, N.J. - July 8, 2014 - PRLog -- If done well, dashboards can not only brilliantly communicate key data to your staff, but keep everyone on task and efficient.

When looking at physician credentialing (http://clinicspectrum.com/Credentialing_Service.html), communications are a vital part of the process, as everyone needs to know the status of tasks—what’s in progress and what remains to be completed. This information needs to be shared among various stakeholders, such as the credentialing staff, providers, practice administrators, and others. For credentialing, communicating this information is vital to practice operations, reducing risk, and ensuring that providers are eligible to receive reimbursement for their work.

Using a credentialing (http://clinicspectrum.com/Credentialing_Service.html) software solution with a dashboard display is an ideal way to share this information in a format that is easily digestible so information becomes actionable. Dashboards are a graphic representation displaying an up-to-date snapshot of tasks, whether they’re newly assigned, in progress, on hold, or past due. A credentialing system dashboard should be easily accessed, and provide an overview snapshot, milestones, drill-down capabilities, and the ability to view tasks and processes from different perspectives. Here’s a look at the first two of these.

Easily Accessed — When users open the credentialing system, the first thing they should see is the dashboard display. This quickly communicates the status of tasks, and alerts them to issues that need resolving. The easy accessibility of the dashboard eliminates the need for users to click through menus to view the information. It also decreases the chances that important information will get ignored, overlooked or simply not communicated.

Overview Snapshot — The dashboard should display a broad overview of the process that users can click on to get more detail, also known as “drill-down” capabilities, which are explained below. This overview enables the dashboard to display information of value to multiple user types, whether they are providers, practice administrators, or the credentialing (http://clinicspectrum.com/Credentialing_Service.html) staff. The dashboard should display:

Status of providers being credentialed (e.g., new, in process, on hold, completed, or custom credentialing)
Counts of providers with insurance
Status of the credentialing process by task
Credentialing task aging (e.g., 0-30 days, etc.)

Start by looking for these items in your dashboard, and watch your credentialing process go more smoothly.