Credentialing Torments of Physicians

While lately embarking on a new adventure in locums, I can safely say that I am now a slave to the keyboard and Internet. Every company, every facility demands exactly the same information, but formatted each time in a uniquely evil way so that there is zero efficiency. For every site, a new log-in, a new password. No matter how long one has successfully been in practice, a fresh background check is required, a new attestation of legal history (which is already available online), a new list of every prior facility. No hospital can accept the information of a prior hospital, however recent. As a physician, I feel as if I am expected to be a secret felon, hiding some heinous crime which each new hospital has to diligently search to find. Perhaps most telling? When a hospital really needs someone, they can be given temporary credentials and start work immediately. That speaks volumes. Dear, credentialing world; can we do better? Especially in a time when we may need to move physicians around to fill gaps due to illness.