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Virginia launches service that tracks license status

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, March 10, 2004

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Virginia has become the first state to launch an online notification service to alert subscribers if a licensed healthcare professional fails to renew his or her license or receives disciplinary action.

The new online service, which tracks license renewal and disciplinary information on the state's 260,000 licensed, certified, and registered healthcare professionals, was announced by Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner in a March 2 press release. Virginia is the first state in the nation to offer such an alert service, according to the release.

For a subscription fee, employers, insurance companies, and other interested parties can create a profile of the licenses and information of particular healthcare providers that they want to track. The profile is compared daily and a subscriber is notified by e-mail whenever there is a status change to a license. The Virginia Department of Health Professionals (DHP) developed the new service.

"Public safety is critical," said DPH Director Robert Nebiker in the release. "Currently, it can be like looking for a needle in a haystack when employers are attempting to stay abreast of the most recent information related to licensees. By keeping the public properly informed, this new service will allow the [DPH] to better protect the public from health care providers who should not be doing business."

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