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At IntelliCentrics, we are transforming healthcare by utilizing trust. Our SEC³URE Ethos technology platform serves a global community of more than 11,000 locations of care, with nearly one million registered users.
Since day one, we have built this community on three principles that guide what we do, what we bring forward to the marketplace, and how we serve our customers. Our customer obsession and relentless pursuit of the highest quality of care for all inform our principles.

By Linda Ash-Jackson, MD
Ambulatory surgery center credentialing poses unique challenges for both administration and surgeons. For administration, keeping up-to-date with ambulatory surgery center credentialing requirements for a revolving roster of surgeons is a never-ending task. Doctors and other health professionals who work out of multiple ASCs require individual credentialing for each location of care — and must stay current on the credentialing requirements of each location.
What Makes Credentialing at Ambulatory Surgery Centers a Challenge?

Physician stress and burnout have negatively impacted the healthcare industry for years and worsened with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In April of 2021, Kaiser Family Foundation released a survey of 1,327 frontline healthcare workers. A staggering 55 percent of respondents reported experiencing burnout. Healthcare workers between the ages of 18 and 29 reported the highest burnout rate at 70 percent.
Utilizing a platform that has the ability to simplify credentialing and save time and resources will allow the physicians at your location of care to focus on what matters most –

Vendors are an essential aspect of everything that happens at locations of care, and like any healthcare professional, they must be properly credentialed to act upon their duties. However, whether or not a vendor interacts directly with patients or patient data has no bearing on their status as a vendor. Anyone who is a provider, manufacturer, or supplier at a location of care qualifies as a vendor.
A vendor credentialing system ensures only vendors who meet local and national rules and regulations have access to hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Locations of care use provider credentialing to ensure all staff, applicants, and affiliated providers have the credentials necessary to perform their duties responsibly. Credentialing is how trust is cultivated within the healthcare industry, but the manual, paper-based process that is so prevalent can take far too long while also being prone to errors and high costs. As a result, the lack of consistency can lead to an erosion of that trust over time. By utilizing technology to optimize these credentialing processes,

By Linda Ash-Jackson, MD
In the SEC³URE Ethos community, we strive to make quality healthcare as accessible as a good cup of coffee by creating an environment of trusted encounters between all participants in the healthcare journey. We focus on enabling frictionless encounters for that provider-patient-location of care interaction to improve clinical and quality outcomes at an optimized cost.
In the middle of that equation, no individual is more important than the patient and their family support system.

Fast credentialing became especially important in 2020 with the emergence of COVID-19 and the need for healthcare facilities to enforce COVID-related compliance policies and procedures. The nature of such policies changed rapidly in the early days of the pandemic, and continue to evolve in response to vaccination efforts and the national prevalence of the delta variant. Recent enhancements to our SEC³URE Ethos platform now allow healthcare facilities the ability to configure their COVID-19 policies based on the dosing,

More than ever, hospitals and healthcare systems are focused on managing their costs while maintaining the highest quality of care.  By leveraging healthcare scheduling, hospitals, and healthcare systems can have the right people, in the right places at the right time thereby reducing costs and improving positive outcomes.
Finding Inefficiencies in Healthcare Scheduling
By looking at trends in your hospital’s data, are there opportunities to leverage scheduling to improve vendor management, operating room time, operating room usage,