Distributed Ledger Credential Records for Rapid Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional credentialing systems for medical professionals are time-consuming and inefficient, particularly for short-term contracts, leading to redundant efforts and lack of insight into the credentialing history when professionals change jobs.
Innovation Solution
A credentialing system utilizing a distributed ledger technology to securely store and verify credential documents immutably, enabling rapid verification and sharing of credential records across a network of nodes, ensuring document integrity and reducing redundant efforts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional credentialing methods are used, then credential verification can be completed, but the process takes an extended period of time and requires redundant efforts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges credentialing activities across multiple organizations into a single centralized system. Instead of each organization independently verifying credentials, the system consolidates these efforts by storing credential documents once in a centralized database that all organizations can access, eliminating redundant verification processes and reducing overall processing time
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary credential verification and document storage before the actual credentialing process is needed. Credential documents are pre-verified, pre-stored, and pre-validated in the centralized database, so when a credentialing check is needed, the information is already prepared and immediately available, eliminating the need for repeated verification efforts
2Reliability
If credential verification is performed for each job change, then current credentials are verified, but there is no understanding of the history of verifications performed by prior facilities
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized credentialing database serves multiple organizations and purposes simultaneously. It stores credential information that can be accessed by any organization in the network, providing a universal platform that maintains complete historical records of all credentialing activities across different facilities, ensuring both verification accuracy and historical continuity
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that track and record each credentialing verification event. When credentials are verified, the system logs the verification details, timestamp, and organizing entity back into the centralized database, creating a feedback loop that maintains an auditable history of all credentialing activities for future reference and validation
3Adaptability or versatility
If short-term contracts are used for traveling professionals, then flexibility is improved, but credentialing overhead expenditure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates digital copies of credential documents and stores them centrally. Instead of requiring physical credential documents to be physically transferred or re-verified for each short-term contract, the system generates and distributes digital copies of verified credentials to multiple organizations simultaneously, eliminating the need for repeated verification efforts and reducing administrative overhead
Data Source
AI summary
A method for preparing a credential package includes providing access to a credential record of a plurality of credential records stored in a database system. The credential record includes information identifying a credential candidate and credential information associated with the credential candidate. The method further comprising receiving a credential document associated with the credential information, receiving credential document information associated with the credential document, and storing the credential document in a distributed ledger system comprising a plurality of nodes.