FEDERATION OF STATE MEDICAL BOARDS SAMPLE VERIFICATION OF PASSING MEDICAL CREDENTIALS VIA BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY
Federation of State Medical Boards has issued “sample verification’s” of graduate and undergraduate medical credentials via blockchain technology. The national nonprofit, which co-sponsors the United States Medical Licensing Examination alongside the National Board of Medical Examiners and represents the seventy state medical and osteopathic boards within the US and its territories, is conducting the blockchain pilot program on an ongoing basis. The pilot utilizes an open source blockchain solution called Blockcerts. Originally developed in 2016 by a partnership between Manhattan-based Learning Machine Technologies and the MIT Media Labs, the blockchain-empowered document software could potentially have far-reaching ramifications that transform credential record keeping. Natalie Smolenski, a cultural anthropologist and vice president of business development “Not only is Blockcerts the only open standard for issuing records to the bloc...