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Ambulatory healthcare services describe any healthcare service that does not require a hospital stay. Ambulatory services may include rehab, diagnostic tests, and surgical procedures. Medical professionals may provide these services in a hospital outpatient center or an ambulatory surgery center (ASC). 
Ambulatory surgical procedures are an increasingly important aspect of healthcare in the United States. According to Business Wire doctors performed 129 million outpatient procedures in 2018, with expectations for that number to increase to 144 million by 2023.

Patient trust is one of the end goals of the credentialing process and plays a significant role in the reputation of your healthcare facility. We cannot overstate the importance of trust in healthcare. The doctor/patient relationship relies on the patient’s confidence to receive the best possible care from qualified healthcare professionals. Without trust, patients will seek other healthcare options. 
Understanding the Importance of Trust in Healthcare 
Patient trust — of the lack thereof —  influences all aspects of healthcare,

Locations of care have strict provider credentialing requirements to improve patient safety. Although vendors rarely come into direct contact with patients, hospital vendor credentialing requirements have the same goal. Locations of care that lack a rigorous vendor credentialing process can be vulnerable to legal action should an unqualified vendor gain access to sensitive facility areas, enter the facility without adequate COVID screening, or otherwise negatively impact the patient experience.
For their part, vendors may have concerns with the hospital credentialing process and balk at the idea of providing personal information and other sensitive data,

How do you ensure patient safety in today’s increasingly complex healthcare environment? The commonly held belief that 250,000 preventable inpatient deaths occur every year has thankfully proven unfounded, but this does not lessen the need to identify patient safety risks. 
Diagnostic errors, lack of proper monitoring processes, errors related to procedures, and poor management of medical conditions remain threats to patient safety. Proper use of the SEC³URE Ethos platform and similar technology helps locations of care reach patient safety goals by streamlining credentialing and scheduling,

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.