Ten years ago, most health system IT leaders did not have Identity and Access Management (IAM) at the top of their priority lists. Provisioning and de-provisioning was primarily a manual operation, done by the IT staff. But today most CIOs and CISOs recognize the need for a sophisticated IAM strategy that is tailored to healthcare’s unique requirements.

Vision of Healthcare
‘Soft organic’ care and‘hard mechanical’ ICT are fundamentally different to each other. And at the same time, due to developments such as digitisation, electronic dossiers, information systems, flexible mobile working practices, transmural chains and home automation, the healthcare organisations have become increasingly dependent on (complex) ICT over the past few years.

New study quantifies the clinical and financial value of single-sign on

Lexington, Mass.– July 17, 2019—Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company, today announced that CHRISTUS Health saved clinicians 49,057 hours per year — the equivalent of 4,088 12-hour shifts — by implementing Imprivata OneSign®, the leading healthcare enterprise single sign-on (SSO) and virtual desktop access platform, across 19 hospitals.