NHS Spine Access

A smarter approach to NHS Spine-enabled access

Technology should optimise clinician workflows and provide a positive user experience. Smartcards no longer need to be a barrier to providing patient care.

Improve usability
Increase productivity
Improve security
Support NHS Spine session roaming
Enable MFA access for NHS Mail

Remove inconvenient barriers to providing patient care and optimise clinician workflows.

Provide fast, secure access to NHS Spine-enabled apps with Imprivata Enterprise Access Management (formerly OneSign), convenient two-factor authentication, and a virtual version of the NHS smartcard

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Remove barriers to patient care with virtual smartcards

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Eliminate physical cards

Completely eliminate physical smartcards and deliver fast, two-step workflows

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Comply with NHS standards

Assured by NHS Digital and meets all of NHS Digital’s requirements

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Easily deployable

Can be deployed, at scale, in a fraction of the time taken for physical smartcards

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Improve security

Eliminate smartcard workarounds and support NHS information governance standards

How Virtual Smartcard works

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Connecting to NHS Spine applications

Remove barriers to patient care with virtual smartcards

EAM Spine Combined Workflow Plus with virtual smartcard secures patient data by combining NHS Spine access with convenient two-factor authentication and a virtual version of the NHS smartcard
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Improve clinician productivity with virtual smartcards

Eliminate smartcards and associated workarounds, increase clinician productivity, and meet compliance and information governance standards.