If you’re in the cybersecurity field, chances are you’ve come across Zero Trust architecture (or any variants of it) enough to know what Zero Trust means. Essentially, the Zero Trust cybersecurity approach is kicking old methods to the curb while embracing the basic principles of security.

Positive patient identification is a challenge for many healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs). Studies show that about 10% of patients are misidentified when they check in for medical care. Patient misidentification can impact patient experience, erode patient trust, and lead to harmful and sometimes even fatal medical errors.

Healthcare data breaches are increasing exponentially year after year, and it doesn’t seem like they’re going to slow down any time soon. It’s important for healthcare IT professionals to take steps to safeguard their systems, whether that means protecting against external threats posed by hackers and cyber criminals or securing internal threats that come from access abuse from internal users.

According to the 2021 Executive Order, “Zero Trust Architecture allows users full access but only to the bare minimum they need to perform their jobs. This data-centric security model allows the concept of least-privileged access to be applied for every access decision, where the answers to the questions of who, what, when, where, and how are critical for appropriately allowing or denying access to resources.”