TalentWise and MD-Staff Deliver First Pre-Integrated Credentialing and Screening Solution for the Healthcare Industry

01-31-2011

Bothell, WA - TalentWise, a leading employment screening solution provider that offers employment screening and onboarding solutions designed for human resources, staffing and recruiting professionals, announced today its partnership with Applied Statistics and Management (ASM), a leading provider of credentialing software for medical staff services departments in hospitals. Together, the two companies have launched the first pre-integrated credentialing and screening solution through ASM’s MD-Staff flagship product. With a single click, the pre-integrated solution allows MD-Staff users to streamline the credentialing and screening process on physicians and allied health professionals working at their healthcare facilities by embedding TalentWise background screening within the MDStaff credentialing tool. MD-Staff users have access to any of TalentWise's hundreds of custom employment screening packages including background checks and drug testing and receive the benefit of TalentWise's award winning customer service, fast turnaround time, and accurate results.

"Healthcare organizations have an inherent obligation to their patients and workforces to keep them safe. This pre-integrated solution will help MD-Staff users reduce both risk and overall program cost by seamlessly incorporating criminal background and drug screening into the healthcare credentialing process," remarked Todd Owens, General Manager of TalentWise.

With the partnership between the two companies, TalentWise and ASM bring their customers a comprehensive credentialing and screening offering through the MD Staff tool that:

• Improves credentialing consistency and compliance by integrating the end-to-end medical staff credentialing and background screening process
• Increases productivity by eliminating the need to manage disparate systems and disconnected processes
• Reduces risk by lowering the probability of manual data entry errors and by creating a closed-loop process to ensure all medical staff workers are screened per hospital policy

"As a company founded upon the objective of delivering consistency, compliance and efficiency to medical staff credentialing programs, we are pleased to announce this exciting new solution. TalentWise is an industry-leader known for taking care if its customers. We are confident that our valued ASM clients using the pre-integrated solution will benefit greatly from this additional layer of risk mitigation and productivity improvement," added Nick Phan, Vice President and Chief Software Architect, Applied Statistics and Management.

For more information about TalentWise, including our healthcare industry solutions, please visit http://www.talentwise.com

About TalentWise

TalentWise, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intelius Inc., is an industry leading consumer reporting agency focused on providing businesses, landlords, and households with the information they need to make sound and legally compliant decisions. Through its TalentWise employment screening and onboarding division, the company has earned recognition as a top three employment screening provider and top two in quality of service for three years in a row. TalentWise works with more than 3,000 businesses throughout North America, helping to make HR, staffing and recruiting professionals’ lives easier by driving greater quality from their recruitment-to-hire process through affordable, comprehensive and flexible technology that increases productivity and improves compliance. For more information about TalentWise, visit http://www.talentwise.com

About Applied Statistics & Management, Inc.

Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Temecula, CA, Applied Statistics & Management, Inc. (ASM) is dedicated to the development and support of software solutions that leverage the latest technologies and methodologies for the healthcare industry. ASM's flagship product, MD-Staff, is the most advanced credentialing, privileging and provider information management platform available. Used by over 700 facilities worldwide, MD-Staff Credentialing Software is a proven system that helps healthcare organizations of any size streamline their credentialing process while reducing overall costs. Applied Statistics & Management, Inc. can be contacted at (800) 736-7276 or http://www.mdstaff.com.

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