Identity Automation's RapidIdentity Solution

Healthcare organizations face intensified pressure from digital transformation and escalating cyberattacks, compounded by sector-specific requirements such as Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances (EPCS) and HIPAA. To protect sensitive data and assets, Identity and Access Management (IAM) must be a foundational element of healthcare IT, enabling tightly controlled, granular access—down to individual patient records. Effective healthcare IAM must extend well beyond Single Sign-On (SSO) to cover all user types, devices, applications, and data sources, while still delivering seamless clinical workflows (including rapid account switching on shared terminals used by doctors and nurses).

IAM has evolved from preventing unauthorized access to incorporating identity provisioning and core capabilities for authentication, authorization, and auditing. Next-generation IAM expanded further to detect unauthorized access, elevating Access Governance (with business participation) and leveraging integrations with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). The latest iteration adds the ability to respond through Access Analytics and Intelligence: analytics uncovers trends and patterns in historical data to improve decisions, while intelligence enables actionable access decisions based on those patterns. Modern IAM must also integrate with adaptive authentication and authorization, real-time security intelligence, software-defined environments, and privilege management to meet governance, compliance, and administrative needs.

Identity Automation provides healthcare-focused IAM via on-premises and cloud (IDaaS) deployments. After acquiring HealthCast in 2018, it expanded RapidIdentity into an integrated suite spanning identity lifecycle management, access governance, MFA, SSO, and integrated privileged access management, plus deep healthcare integrations (Epic, Cerner, Meditech) and capabilities such as DEA-compliant MFA, EPCS/SSO auditing, tap-and-go proximity badge access, and identity verification (including patient verification). RapidIdentity’s integrated approach reduces cost and complexity for mid-sized organizations compared to assembling disparate point solutions.

• Healthcare organizations face pressure from digital transformation and increasing cyberattacks.
• Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances (EPCS) is a healthcare-specific IAM-related requirement.
• HIPAA imposes regulatory requirements affecting access to healthcare data.
• IAM capabilities evolved to include identity provisioning plus authentication, authorization, and auditing.
• SIEM integrations contributed to improved detection of unauthorized access in IAM ecosystems.
• Access Analytics analyzes historical data to identify trends and patterns for decision-making improvement.
• Access Intelligence enables access decisions that can be acted upon based on identified patterns and trends.
• Identity Automation offers both on-premises and cloud-based IAM (IDaaS) solutions.
• Identity Automation acquired HealthCast in 2018.
• RapidIdentity integrates with major healthcare solutions including Epic, Cerner, and Meditech.

• “Restricting and controlling access allows for focused protection down to the granular level of patient records.”
• “This requires a comprehensive IAM solution that goes well-beyond pure Single Sign-on (SSO) to support all types of users and devices and enable seamless, yet secure, access to all types of applications and data.”
• “The next generation of IAM solutions not only tried to prevent unauthorized access to resources, but also added the ability to detect it.”
• “Access Governance with a focus on administration with business participation became a core IAM technology.”
• “In this latest iteration, IAM built upon this ability to prevent and detect by adding the ability to respond to security threats.”
• “Together, Access Analytics and Intelligence provide the ability to not only detect, but also to respond to unauthorized access attempts.”
• “For example, doctors and nurses who use shared terminals require quick access when switching accounts.”
• “RapidIdentity comes as an integrated suite of IAM capabilities.”
• “Healthcare’s increasingly complex requirements have created a need for integrated IAM solutions and structured approaches for delivering these capabilities.”
• “It is the combination of specific support for Healthcare requirements and strong focus on delivering comprehensive IAM capabilities that are essential for Healthcare organizations that differentiate Identity Automation’s RapidIdentity from other IAM solutions.”