Recently, Applied Statistics & Management (ASM) launched a blockchain credentialing solution called Checksome for health professionals. The system verifies data from organizations such as the National Practitioner Data Bank, the Office of Inspector General and System for Award Management (SAM).
Checksome will be available free of charge to users of ASM’s credentialing software solution MD-Staff which has more than 1,200 clients. The company said the technology incorporates nearly two million primary source verifications which are secured by blockchain.
Traditionally, healthcare professionals have to submit credentialing proof to each organization they onboard with. Each such verification process takes about four to six months to complete. This is financially taxing for the workers and hospitals waiting for credentialing and enrollment into an insurance program to be completed. The professional invariably supplies the same data to each organization.
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