Effective January 1, 2006, the Joint Commission (formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization or JCAHO) required that hospitals and covered health care entities conduct Primary Source Verification (PSV) on all licensed, registered, or certified staff. The rule applies to both employees and contract staff and also applies to the process of tracking license renewals as well.

For hospitals and covered health care organizations, there is a logistical challenge in obtaining, tracking, updating and maintaining an audit trail for all employees who are required to be licensed, registered or certified. Licenses are typically checked when an employee is first hired, but covered entities must now verify the information from the primary source, track expiration and manage the process of updating records from the primary source in order to be in compliance.

To help hospitals and covered entities comply, ESR’s proprietary solution manages and tracks the entire process in accordance with the standards. ESR generates automatic reports on all employees and contractors with licenses that are expiring. ESR provides tools to conduct license verification for the primary source and to track all current and past licensees. During a JCAHO audit, all necessary information demonstrating compliance with the Primary Source Verification rule is instantly available.

ESR helps healthcare organizations to achieve safe work environments against bad hiring decisions of dishonest, unqualified, unfit or dangerous workers that can lead to negligent hiring lawsuits, fines, and criminal charges.