From time to time, DataFlow has proved its worth in various fields and industries by being the most trusted and preferable partner for processing applications and providing verification solutions to professionals looking for professional licenses. DataFlow has alliances with more than 100,000 issuing authorities worldwide, and it helps in the verification of the document directly from the source itself. DataFlow has partnered up with CRPEP or The Council for Regulating the Practice of Engineering Professions to provide support to applicants who want to complete the process of Primary Source Verification for the CRPEP.

Essential Steps for the Completion of PSV Application Process for CRPEP 

With DataFlow’s supportive system and intuitive methods, Primary Source Verification will be straightforward. You have to enter all the details and sign the authorization letter. After that, you must upload the respective documents and any supporting information. Once the verification request is processed, the applicant can download their report. Here, are eight easy steps to complete the process of PSV application in detail.

In case you are a first-time applicant, you will get an email for activation of the registration. However, all you have to do is enter the email address password, and you can proceed further. 

After submitting the form, you will receive the email that has the activation link. With the help of this link, you will be able to activate the account. After the activation is complete, enter the registered Email Address and Password. 

To initiate the application process, you need to click on the ‘Detailed Case Entry’. 

In the next step, you have to provide all the documents and information listed on the pages of Personal Details, Employment, and Education. Ensure that you have provided all the authentic documents since the authorities will verify these documents under the capable security system of DataFlow. 

After you have managed to enter the component details and uploaded the required documents, you can proceed to download, sign, and scan the Letter of Authorization. After reviewing, you need to upload it with the application.

Once that is done, you can carefully review the details you have entered and submit the application. 

You get redirected to the ‘Payment’ page. You will get an overview of the total payment you need to make for the fee. Click on the button ‘Submit Application’ to properly proceed to the payments gateway. 

After the payment gets finalized, DataFlow’s system will automatically populate a payment receipt that you can take a printout of. Your case gets forwarded for the process of verification. 

Following these simple and easy steps, you will be able to complete the process of your PSV application for CRPEP pretty quickly.

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Let's find out how online identity verification can help healthcare professionals improve the quality of care. There are several ways in which digital identity verification can enable hospitals and healthcare professionals to provide better and safer healthcare services. Medical institutions should implement an adequate identity verification system capable of identifying and authenticating the identity of patients. Since medical information must be open and public to provide the best possible treatment, medical institutions must implement a reliable identity verification solution.

Authenticating a patient's identity ensures that healthcare professionals provide the right care to the right patients. Thanks to the digital identity verification system, medical professionals can instantly access patient data, identifying them remotely. Proper identification and verification allows healthcare professionals to manage and access patients instantly. Identity verification should include scanning an ID card to compare document information with patient records.

This kind of hands-on identity verification could help, for example, ensure that drugs remain in the hands of real patients. This is why hospitals and other healthcare professionals are the perfect brand for this type of online scam, he says. The Know Your Patient approach begins, for example, with the introduction of an online digital identity verification system that verifies whether a patient is who they say they are by comparing a photo of a patient's ID with their live photo.

Health care providers should adopt measures to protect the individual, similar to the “Know Your Customer” rules adopted in the financial services industry. Doctors and medical institutions need reliable solutions that protect their patients from fraud. As the medical industry becomes the target of cybercrime and fraudulent schemes, protecting healthcare centers and patients' rights becomes a necessity. The healthcare industry is constantly under attack from credential scams and account hijacking, especially with medical devices that are increasingly coming online.

According to HIMSS Europe, data protection in the healthcare sector is not up to the mark, which is why identity fraud occurs. The FBI estimates that the total cost of insurance fraud (excluding health insurance) is over $40 billion a year. In addition to insurance fraud, the NCDF engages in charity fraud, identity theft, and contract and procurement fraud. Medical data theft affects not only the patient, but also healthcare professionals and insurance companies.

This type of fraud also includes unauthorized personal gain in the form of insurance payments, prescription drugs, employment, government benefits, or other financial gain resulting from the theft of another person's PII. Health identity theft occurs when criminals steal victims' names, health insurance numbers, and other personal information and then scam insurers by making false claims. Fraudsters can create artificial identities by using potentially valid social security numbers (SSNs) in combination with false personal identification information (PIIs).

The real danger of synthetic fraud is that, unlike third-party fraud where entire identities are stolen and used to defraud both the company and the victim, synthetic fraud often has no specific victim for the consumer. Without a paper trail leading to a real person, the real victims of synthetic identity fraud are lenders and service providers, who have to bear the potential for high-frequency and dollar losses.

There are often inconsistencies within organizations as to what constitutes a synthetic identity, and even disagreement as to whether it is a scam or a credit problem. To combat health-related identity theft, some healthcare facilities have limited access to employee data and require photo ID for people seeking treatment.

For example, the California Employment Development Department (EDD) is seeking to make it mandatory for healthcare providers to verify the identity of their clients before engaging them in efforts to combat disability insurance fraud. Not all laws deal specifically with insurance fraud, and not all regulations allow you to report information to law enforcement or public insurance departments. The identity industry, of which I am a part, has provided innovative technologies designed to combat fraud and authenticate identity, especially in the healthcare sector. Implementing robust verification practices will create a culture of compliance at all points of service in the health sector.

HIPAA and many other laws to fight and punish healthcare fraud need to work with patient screening practices. In the long term, such methods will protect the identity of the patient, ensure the integrity of health data, and support HIPAA compliance standards. Telemedicine requires an effective verification method to reduce the risks of fraud and maintain the integrity of our healthcare systems, even when it is online. I believe that third-party Medicare and Medicaid payers should require reliable verification as a precondition for paying for a service, thereby holding health care providers and healthcare providers liable for fraud and inadequate identity verification.

This law was first applied to the healthcare industry in 2009 to address growing concerns about the privacy and security of patient data, electronic records, and how they should be used by healthcare companies.

IDMERIT’s state-of-the-art digital identity verification service provides a complete solution for the healthcare industry as it allows companies to verify their real identities before patients receive healthcare services or claim insurance bonuses. IDMscan provides robust authentication solutions that use AI, ML, deep learning, MRZ and OCR to simplify the patient authentication process. If you're a healthcare professional dealing with identity fraud, IDMscan can help. IDMERIT provides a wide range of technical services such as biometric facial verification, document authentication, consent verification, and fully ensures that medical companies stay abreast of the ever-changing regulatory regime.

The appeal of overseas job opportunities and the ongoing shortage in professionals to meet enhanced investment in infrastructure and social services has created a lucrative market for unqualified individuals to embellish or forge their academic or professional documents, taking advantage of the prevalent need to bridge the gap between supply and demand. In countries that import labour to support future growth and development, this trend is creating an increasingly acute problem.

In recent years, nearly 87% of new overseas registrations in the United Kingdom have come from the European Economic Area (EEA), with British medical professionals topping the list of ‘Negative’ cases at 52%(1). With regards to foreign labour, an investigation by The Guardian found that aggressive recruitment sees doctors from at least 27 countries hired in 32 of the 160 hospital trusts in England(2) – a figure that is only set to grow moving forward. In 2014, the National Health Service (NHS) alone employed 150,273 qualified doctors, 377,191 qualified nurses, 155,960 qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff and 37,078 qualified managers (3) within its extensive network of provider and commissioner organisations. This being said, if we consider the possibility of document forgery, we will find that there is a significant number of unqualified healthcare professionals currently practicing in the United Kingdom.

With the healthcare sector in the United Kingdom and the world at large evolving at such a rapid pace, ensuring that medical professionals have the skillset, expertise and ethics they claim has become of paramount importance. This is especially true in critical sectors such as healthcare where potential repercussions of malpractice could be fatal, and could also lead to lawsuits and loss of credibility for employers, regulators and governments alike – yet another concerning issue.

To put things into perspective, since 2013, the DataFlow Group has screened 375,000 doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals migrating to work in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. More than 10,000 of those were found to have used fake or misrepresented academic credentials, professional licenses or work history in their visa or licensing applications. Nurses were the most likely to misrepresent their backgrounds, with 4.4% of applicants having a negative background screening result, followed by allied healthcare professionals such as a pharmacists and medical technologists, coming in at 3.8%(4). The most commonly misrepresented information received from nurses and allied healthcare workers was employment history, particularly the tenure, position and type of institution stated in their work experience. Alternatively, physicians were more likely to have negative results related to false academic credentials.

The issue is deeply unsettling for the healthcare sector in particular, not only in the GCC region, but also globally, especially given the alarming rise in diploma mills – unaccredited universities and colleges that sell effectively worthless degrees, often without any previous requirements from students. Further complicating efforts to effectively screen job applicants, governments and regulators have traditionally relied on a system of notarisation and Apostilles to ensure documents presented by migrant workers are genuine. This approach is flawed in that a notarisation only attests that a copy of a document such as a diploma is a true likeness of the original. It does not guarantee, for example, that a diploma itself is real, the person whose name is on the diploma attended the school or that the institution granting the qualification is recognized by a competent authority.

On the other hand, notarisation can also be faked. Most of the counterfeit documents the DataFlow Group has uncovered are imprinted with ‘genuine’ stamps, attestations and endorsements. The Hague Conference on Private International Law – an international organization facilitating agreements on legal matters – expressed serious concerns about the potential abuse of notarisation, saying: “An official looking certificate may be issued to a copy of a diploma mill qualification, and then subsequently issued with an Apostille, without anyone having ever verified the signature on, let alone the contents of, the diploma. The addition of seals, certificates and Apostilles lends credibility to these documents in the eyes of those who are unaware of what is actually being certified.” The common misconception that ‘original’ documents are equivalent to primary source authentication is at the core of the matter.

To safeguard against employee fraud and misconduct, an advanced screening methodology – namely Primary Source Verification (PSV) – was introduced. As the term indicates, PSV refers to the attainment of data directly from the issuing source. As such, this guarantees optimal information accuracy and integrity, and ultimately helps organisations – particularly those within the healthcare sector – avoid possible regulatory implications, reputational damage, financial losses, and most importantly, internal risks that could pose a threat to the physical wellbeing of patients. The problem is, however, that until this day, many governments and regulators continue to utilize to a large extent online portals to conduct verifications. Understandably, these lack a robust PSV element as they rely purely on checking only against digitized documents as opposed to approaching the original source or issuing authority.

The best way to ensure that both medical institutions and practitioners maintain excellent quality standards and serve their respective communities to the best of their abilities is by affirming and sustaining integrity, competence and professionalism across all levels of the value chain. This can only be done with such effectiveness by leveraging the most rigorous verification solution available to date – PSV – thus enhancing the overall level of care within the healthcare sector and ultimately protecting global communities

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Tenant verification plays a vital role in establishing a trustworthy relationship between landlord and tenant primarily eliminating instances of fraudulent transactions and criminal backgrounds. The recent trends in letting out property suggest that the property owners invest considerable time in tenant verification services.  Multiple factors such as references from the previous employers, credit checks and background verification are considered by employers before signing a rental agreement.