With the current state of healthcare’s digital transformation identity, authentication and access management (IAAM) is a crucial and necessary step in facilitating provider access and workflow while also securing healthcare organizations. IAAM solutions are and should be about offering simple, fast and efficient access to authorized individuals across the broad services of Healthcare IT both on-prem and remote.

A recent survey shed some light on a security trend that leaves healthcare organizations vulnerable to attacks: nearly half of respondents said that they rely on passive mobile device security measures -- things like education and policy. Used as complementary tools, policies and education can, of course, be useful, but are not techniques that put healthcare IT teams on the offensive.

I recently had the opportunity to attend the 2019 Gartner Identity & Access Management (IAM) Summit in Las Vegas. Gartner’s 14th IAM conference, this event had an impressive showing of 2000 attendees and 97 exhibitors, and included more than 65 research-driven sessions. From what I heard, this was one of the two most attended Gartner IAM Summits in 2019.