The digitization of healthcare has allowed healthcare organizations to utilize robust technology such as medical devices to help improve both patient care and provider experiences across the entire care continuum. Today, medical devices can track and monitor patient stats, provide diagnostic information, help ensure lifesaving care delivery, and even make recommendations on treatment and clinical decision support, all while communicating directly with healthcare IT systems to ensure more complete and accurate patient medical records.

The days of needing only one or two sets of login credentials are long gone. On average, healthcare professionals must remember eight to 10 passwords for the applications and devices they use. To manage the issue, organizations turn to single sign-on solutions (SSO).

Through a combination of multiple authorization and access control methods, SSO simplifies access to various applications and heightens security.

The threat of hackers stealing private information and holding it for ransom is real, and the healthcare industry has become a prime target – in fact, phishing as emerged as the top security threat facing healthcare organizations. Criminals employ a variety of highly-targeted methods to breach data security. That means, as a provider, you must protect your patients’ private information by using equally dynamic security solutions.