As discussed at February’s All Staff Meeting, the Product Development Team, in collaboration with the Executive Team, has been actively repositioning URAC’s Core 4.0 stand-alone accreditation program to an Organizational Management Certification program.

For the first time ever, URAC live streamed the accreditation standards workshops. We held all four workshops on March 1 and 2 at the Renaissance Washington, DC.

We received positive feedback on the March 1 and 2 workshops, from both in-person and live-streaming attendees. While I led the new Core v4.0 workshop on March 1 and the Case Management v6.0 workshop on March 2, Jennifer Richards and Tanya Bennett, two of our accreditation reviewers, led workshops covering several pharmacy and utilization management programs.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, two technology related concepts often used interchangeably are quite different in focus. Disaster Recovery, the process of saving and recovering data is only a part of a Business Continuity Plan.

You may have read that the Chronic Care Act, which has been praised by industry groups and telemedicine providers for paving the way for greater use of telemedicine, was included in the most recent Congressional budget.

The Monthly Review spotlights a different URACer each month in a Q&A. This month it's Brittany McCullough, who has been with URAC for 2 weeks!