Office of Inspector General (OIG) Check, Excluded Parties List System (EPLS) Check, Aseptic Techniques Training, Bloodborne Pathogens Training, Electrical Safety Training, Fire Safety Training.... Fire Safety?? Electrical Safety??? Seriously?! Last time I checked Vendors are not hospital employees. That seems necessary for hospital employees. All I want to do is call on the Surgeons from time to time. The office sometimes rarely tells me to meet them in the Hospital, and now I have to get much more than a badge... I need Fire Safety Training! /facepalm
What did the hospital do with my credential records that I complied with before these new "credentialing" systems were in place??? Was that filing cabinet destroyed?? Was my continued uneventful service over the years ignored??
I think any medical company would do background checks and train their employees to do the job required of them... having it "documented" again in new places while paying a fee... is ludicrous. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees.
I've got one healthcare system in my state that still uses a laminated ID badge, that's got to be less expensive than having a sticker printed for every visit by every rep over that same year.
Use Google with special combinations of words, and you'll get interesting results:
"patent pending" from
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...-compliance-monitoring-services-58892457.html (searched Vendormate Amerinet News) points to the potential real reason Reptrax bought Venordmate? (Patent?did it get approved?)
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2006/07/24/focus4.html : "After working with several business partners -- such as credit reporting company Experian North America -- to research the vendor, Vendormate provides their customer with information that confirms whether the vendor is following regulatory compliance. The only cost to the hospital is an upfront, one-time consulting fee. All other costs are paid for by vendors applying to do business with the hospital." I venture to bet no checking is done by the supposed credentialing companies (soon to be Reptrax as a monopoly?) They are a overpayed Server provider. They have a minimal GUI (which is nice) that is a reservoir for use to put PDF files.
Holy hand jobs Batman! If a Hospital has a Website. Could that website be fitted to do the same function? I think so. Perhaps the IT team servicing the hospital websites could have set this up years ago, or in the near future. Save your hospital system money from not paying.... oh wait, the medical companies pay credentialing companies and supposedly no costs to hospitals for having agreed to allow credentialing companies to put kiosk/terminals and printers in the Material Management or Security office for badge printing....
So, is it possible that RepCred companies are the reason the elected officials in FedGov occasionally mention rising healthcare costs?? (maybe... along with rising insurance costs, to mention one more variable) If you think that having a 3rd party charge companies and their reps to do business with their customers might lead to rising costs of products/services to compensate for the fees to continue to do business with their customers.
"Occupy Wall Street", I support them. Having the little fish being eaten by big fish to manipulate stock values is a likely variable leading to less competition that would otherwise keep costs competitively low and Americans employed. Don't even get me started about GPO practices:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/health/policy/14purchasing.html?pagewanted=all The people that trained me, have informed me of the kickbacks performed over the years to Department heads based on compliance with contracted items. Where is the savings in that? Considering this precedent, one might think medical companies paying to do business is the standard. 0o What a mess.
And by the way... 0o!? Medtronic is giving NPR money?? What's that about? Sponsorship? or getting brownie points to make up for something gone wrong in the past? And everyone avoid Linkedin like the plague, I hate that spam! Carry on and good luck.
