Connecticut Department of Public Health’s Web site missing physician malpractice information
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, January 14, 2011
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Physicians with less-than-stellar medical malpractice records appear to have clean slates, according to the Connecticut Department of Public Health’s Web site, www.elicense.ct.gov/Lookup/LicenseLookup.aspx. The Department of Public Health shut down the site temporarily in 2010 to integrate the state’s eLicense system, which allows physicians to renew their licenses online. However, when the site went back up, it failed to include the malpractice or criminal histories of 106 physicians, all of whom have last names that end with the letters A through G.
The Hartford Courant reports that one in six physicians on the site have malpractice and/or criminal histories but appear to have a clean record. MSPs who use the Connecticut Department of Public Health’s Web site to research physicians during the credentialing process may want to search for other sources until the state has had time to iron out the kinks.
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