🏥 Healthcare Workforce Mobility

The Problem: Fragmented Verification

Healthcare workers are the backbone of public health systems. Yet, their mobility across hospitals, clinics, and cities is severely constrained by duplicated, manual, and siloed verification processes.

• A surgeon may be fully vetted in one city but forced to undergo the same checks again when working in another.
• Onboarding involves verifying identity, professional licenses, grants to work, DBS checks, training records, and certifications.
• Each verification is costly, time-consuming, and delays the ability of healthcare staff to start work.
• Hospitals, already under resource pressure, repeat checks that other trusted institutions have recently performed.

This inefficiency translates into wasted time, wasted resources, and slower access to healthcare services for patients.

The Solution

Verana introduces a decentralized, verifiable trust layer to solve this problem by ensuring that once a healthcare worker is verified, their credentials are valid anywhere in the country.

Create an Ecosystem Trust Registry

The government (or national healthcare authority) establishes a Healthcare Workforce Ecosystem Trust Registry on the Verana Verifiable Trust Network.

• Defines credential schemas for key categories such as:

  • Identity
  • Grant to Work (license to practice)
  • DBS / Background Checks
  • Training & Continuous Education
  • Specialty Certifications

• Publishes an Ecosystem Governance Framework (EGF), which sets the rules for issuance, verification, revocation, and compliance.

Approve Issuers and Verifiers

• Issuers: Universities, professional councils, certification authorities, and government agencies apply for permission to issue credentials. Once validated, they become authorized issuers.
• Verifiers: Hospitals, clinics, research centers, and government bodies apply for verifier permission. They are authorized to request credential presentations.

This ecosystem ensures that only accredited entities can issue and verify credentials.

Healthcare Worker Credential Issuance

• Healthcare workers receive verifiable credentials from trusted issuers (universities, licensing boards, training organizations).
• Credentials are stored in a Digital Wallet (a Verifiable User Agent), owned and controlled by the worker.
• Workers can present only the necessary claims (e.g., proof of valid license, specialty, training) using selective disclosure, to protecting their privacy.

Workforce Mobility in Practice

When a healthcare professional arrives at a new hospital:

1. The hospital requests credential presentation to the holder.
2. The worker presents their verifiable credentials from their wallet.
3. The hospital verifies them instantly.
4. No repeated onboarding, no paper-based checks, no delays.

Business Models and Incentives

• Governments can adopt pay-per-verification models, where verifiers (e.g., hospitals) pay a small privacy-preserving fee each time they check a worker’s credentials.
• Issuers (e.g., universities, licensing boards) may also be rewarded for maintaining credential quality.
• Wallet providers and user agent vendors are incentivized, ensuring a sustainable ecosystem without surveillance-driven monetization.

Additional Benefits

• Portability: Credentials travel with the worker, valid nationwide (or even cross-border if interoperable ecosystems are recognized).
• Security: Credentials are cryptographically verifiable, revocable, and fraud-resistant.
• Efficiency: Cuts onboarding times from weeks to minutes.
• Trust: Hospitals gain confidence that staff meet national requirements without duplicated checks.
• Patient Safety: Ensures only fully verified and authorized staff are deployed in critical environments.

Conclusion

By adopting Verana, governments can transform healthcare workforce mobility from a fragmented, manual process into a seamless, trusted, and privacy-preserving system.

Healthcare workers are verified once, and that verification is valid everywhere. This approach reduces costs, eliminates redundancy, improves patient safety, and strengthens trust in the healthcare system.

Verana turns the principle of “don’t trust, verify” into a practical foundation for modern, mobile healthcare ecosystems.