5 Benefits of Continuous Monitoring in Healthcare
Continuous monitoring is a proactive way to stay on top of certain potential risks associated with employees. Learn about some advantages of a continuous monitoring program, particularly within the U.S. healthcare sector.
Employers in the healthcare and life sciences industry understand the importance of a good hire. One with the experience, expertise, credentials, and record needed to fit in a given role. Continuous workforce monitoring is a post-hire process of checking for changes in an employee’s record. Unlike typical pre-employment background screening, continuous monitoring can provide updated visibility into your employees’ backgrounds. These services may be able to help you track changes in criminal records, professional licenses, driving records, and more.
These services help protect your workforce and your company by providing more systematic and regular checks into your employee qualifications and background information. Below are some standout benefits of incorporating a continuous monitoring system into your background screening process.
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1. Helps Keep Patients Safe
Being able to identify any changes in your employee’s professional license standing helps employers make sure their staff continues to be qualified and vetted, providers of care for customers and patients.
2. Helps Decreases Risk Around Regulation and Compliance
Continuous monitoring and rescreening can both help businesses meet their compliance obligations. This can include ensuring compliance with both federal and state compliance requirements related to employee screening, such as professional license verification and healthcare sanctions and actions monitoring. Detecting and managing any issues early on can also help save any ill consequences to the business's reputation or even lawsuits.
3. Streamlines Credentialling and Recredentialling Workflows
Implementing ongoing monitoring of employees’ occupational licenses helps both the employees and employer keep track of employees’ license standing. This can also help support the license renewal process by identifying upcoming renewals prior to expiration, so employees can initiate renewals without a delay or lapse in work.
4. Promotes Effective Insight Reporting
Additional screening can mean additional record and data insights. Given these complexities, HireRight Insights can help provide executive level reports and presentations that showcase, provide analysis, and insight into your entire screening program. With presentation-ready graphs and charts; general program overviews, turnaround times, work in progress, and adjudication, are all easily digestible.
5. Can Help Strengthen Retention Decisions
The added level of transparency around rescreening and continuous monitoring can help strengthen the decisions around employee retention. Continuous monitoring provides valuable information and insights that can either identify employees who pose some degree of risk or who might need further support.
Continuous monitoring, especially within the healthcare industry, may be a best practice. And while this idea is not new, recent advancements in technology help make this concept both efficient and effective.
However, organizations should seek authoritative legal guidance from legal counsel well-versed in current federal, state and local compliance legislation. There are several considerations when implementing a monitoring program involving disclosures, all of which must be addressed before deploying a continuous monitoring process.
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Release Date: September 24, 2025
Joe Conerty
Joe Conerty is a Strategic Enterprise Sales Executive at HireRight, where he helps healthcare organizations modernize and strengthen their background screening programs. With over 13 years of experience in the screening industry, Joe specializes in working with large, complex health systems to improve onboarding efficiency, reduce risk, and support compliance across diverse clinical and non-clinical roles. He is Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified and brings a consultative approach grounded in long-term partnership, operational insight, and measurable outcomes.