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Archive > November, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 11

Take the Tedium Out of Credentialing

Find out how software can make reappointing your docs not only faster, but also easier and more cost-effective.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

If you're like Kimberly Baliko, RN, you bought your surgical software to schedule, bill and case-cost, not to credential your doctors. "We didn't even know the software came with a credentialing component until the in-service instructor went through each of the tabs," says Ms. Baliko, the director of nursing at The Surgery Center in Flint, Mich. "Once we realized that credentialing was in there, we knew we could use the software for a lot more than what we first thought."

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