Healthcare Industry
One of the major issues facing the modern healthcare organization is the increasing internationalization of your workforce. More and more, your prospective employees have worked, studied, or lived abroad – think about all the doctors who attend medical school in other countries and healthcare professionals who do Good Samaritan work in developing nations. So how can you verify their backgrounds - especially if you’re required to by law?
That’s why you need a background screening partner like Kroll. Our international capabilities help healthcare organizations all over the world verify the backgrounds and capabilities of their employees. What’s more, we can do so in strict accordance with the often myriad laws and regulations that dominate your industry. Kroll understands that the consequences for noncompliance can be devastating to both your bottom line and reputation – that’s why we’re here to help.
As the world’s premier provider of background screening services, Kroll is a recognized expert in supplying screening services to the healthcare industry. This is evidenced by the fact that nearly a third of our global clientele comprises healthcare companies and providers, all who rely on Kroll to provide them with specialized information delivered within your industry’s stringent compliance regulations.
Healthcare organizations maintain large amounts of personally identifiable information, making them a prime target for data breaches. Effective employee and supplier/vendor screening programs play an important role in avoiding data breaches caused by deliberate theft on the part of people with direct access to sensitive information. See Kroll Fraud Solutions’ commissioned study, the 2010 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data.
From our in-house Fraud Solutions team and legal staff’s compliance tools, to our unparalleled insight into providing best practice screening services to the healthcare industry, Kroll acts as a true partner. Our services help healthcare clients to enhance the safety and well-being of patients and workforce and bolster continuing confidence in the medical profession.
Services of particular interest to Healthcare organizations include:
Employment background checks – Ensures compliance with applicable laws and regulations, helps reduce workplace theft and violence, and verifies that employees are qualified to handle their level of responsibility and are honest about their histories.
I.D. theft and fraud solutions – Helps organizations deter and recover from losses of sensitive personal information that may be held on your employees, clients, or organizational secrets.
Supplier/vendor screening – Verifies the capabilities and integrity of potential and existing vendors – including business entities, key vendor employees, and vendor employees who work alongside client personnel.
U.S.-specific services include:
Sanctions searches – Gives sanction information as taken by the (Office of Inspector General (OIG- includes all 50 states), the General Services Administration (GSA- includes all 50 states) and other federal agencies, as well as disciplinary actions taken by licensing and certification agencies in all 50 states.
Kroll can also conduct aggregate batch requests for an organization’s employees to meet the government's minimum requirements for sanction screening as set forth in the OIG's Compliance Program Guidance.
Physician profiles – Gives you detailed information on a physician’s education, medical residency, work history, licensure and disciplinary action.
Extensive credentialing services – Provides you with useful information on a healthcare professional’s licensure, performance, working style, clinical knowledge, and professional privileges.
Medical malpractice history – Determine if your candidate has an undesirable history of involvement in medical malpractice lawsuits.
Employment physicals – Help organizations determine proper placement of employees and reasonable accommodation of qualified applicants.
Form I-9 including E-Verify – Enables companies to accurately and quickly perform employment eligibility verification, reduce Form I-9 processing errors, securely store and retrieve I-9 Forms online, receive proactive notifications of employees’ expiring work authorizations, and help reduce the potential for identity theft.
Substance abuse testing – Helps organizations reduce the incidence of drug and alcohol use and its effects in the workplace.