American Board of Medical Specialties

American Board of Medical Specialties

Committed to a Higher Professional Standard to Deliver Better Patient Care

About American Board of Medical Specialties

The Most Trusted Medical Specialty Certification Organization.

Since 1933, American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has earned the public’s trust by setting a higher standard of professionalism and care for physicians and specialists.

ABMS represents 24 certifying boards and nearly one million active board certified physicians who are aiming higher to better serve their patients, families, and communities.

With HealthStream and ABMS Direct Connect Select, you can maintain medical certification monitoring.

Integrated Products:

  • CredentialStream

American Board of Medical Specialties features

The HealthStream Experience

ABMS Direct Connect® Select data service provides access to the ABMS database through CredentialStream by HealthStream. With this integration, users can search the database for multiple providers without interrupting other program activities. Information accessed from this service meets PSV requirements for The Joint Commission, NCQA, URAC and other accrediting agencies. It can be stored for current and future credentialing verification purposes.

  • Access to the most current information with daily updates.
  • Flexible search options by physician’s name, secure identifiers, geographic location, specialty, and subspecialty.
  • Pre-populate fields in your credentialing software database to simplify and integrate workflow.
  • Data results with board certification effective and expiration dates, as well as complete physician certification history and Maintenance of Certification information.

To utilize the integration, CredentialStream customers must:

  • Contract with the ABMS for a ABMS Direct Connect® Select account.
  • Enter the necessary credentials into their CredentialStream Environment so that CredentialStream can perform queries on the customers behalf.

Learn More

ABMS Direct Connect® Select

For additional information contact your CredentialStream Sales Executive or The American Board of Medical Specialties.

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