Imprivata – The world leader in trusted digital identity management for health delivery organizations

The importance of patient identification and verification is crucial in the healthcare sector. Patient identification can be critical in imparting fast and effective healthcare services to patients and can do wonders for public health management, thereby helping achieve sustainable development. Digital identity verification systems can assist healthcare providers in improving the quality of healthcare they provide and enabling them to improve organization and sharing of medical records, ensure insurance claims, and reduce medical fraud by protecting patient data. Through proper automated identification and verification procedures, healthcare providers can manage and access patient records instantly. It also allows the transfer and sharing of data amongst healthcare institutions, reducing duplicate testing, and allowing for swift and efficient patient care.

Imprivata is one such company that enables healthcare securely, a simple promise with a complex path. It is a digital identity company for healthcare, provides identity, authentication, and access management solutions that are purpose-built to solve healthcare's unique workflow, security, and compliance challenges. Imprivata enables healthcare securely by establishing trust between people, technology, and information across the increasingly complex healthcare ecosystem.

Unique solutions offered by Imprivata

Identity governance: Securing and controlling access to protected health information is one of the most critical issues facing healthcare organizations today. Due to the frequent influx of new users who need access to numerous applications with different permissions based on their job, securing PHI and other sensitive data is no easy task. But Identity Governance platform is designed and purpose-built for healthcare; Imprivata Identity Governance is an end-to-end solution with precise role-based access controls, automated provisioning and de-provisioning, streamlined auditing processes, and analytics that enable faster threat evaluation and remediation. The Imprivata digital identity framework for healthcare presents a unified, security- and efficiency-focused strategy for ensuring comprehensive IAM by managing identities across the healthcare delivery organization's complex ecosystem.

Mobile IAM and provisioning: Ensuring the proper balance of security and efficiency, both from technology and user management standpoints, is critical to the successful adoption of mobility initiatives in healthcare. Imprivata helps customers manage this complexity by leveraging shared mobile devices and users' trusted digital identity to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end mobile provisioning and identity and access management solution that helps organizations optimize their mobile strategies. Imprivata delivers automated device provisioning, secure device checkout, and fast, secure access for users, helping customers unlock the full potential of shared mobile devices by ensuring a fast, efficient workflow while improving security and auditability.

Secure communication for healthcare: Imprivata Cortext is the secure communications platform for healthcare that streamlines care coordination with HIPAA-compliant secure messaging by allowing physicians, nurses, and patients to connect, communicate, and collaborate securely from any workstation or mobile device. It improves care team communication with context-rich, HIPAA compliant messaging, allowing for more time focused on patient care. It also increases provider productivity by replacing outdated paging technology with fast, convenient communication modalities and enables secure communications between care teams across the entire care continuum, anytime, anywhere.

Multifactor authentication: Imprivata Confirm ID is the comprehensive identity and multifactor authentication platform for healthcare. The need for holistic, enterprise-wide multifactor authentication in healthcare has never been greater, and Imprivata Confirm ID provides a secure, auditable chain of trust wherever, whenever, and however users interact with the patient record. Imprivata Confirm ID enables secure and convenient authentication of remote network access, electronic prescribing of controlled substances, medical devices, and clinical authentication workflows such as medication dispensing, administering, and wasting.

The valiant leader behind the glory of Imprivata

Gus Malezis is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Imprivata. He is widely recognized as a visionary leader in the information technology security industry. He brings more than 30 years of experience driving innovation and growth while building market-leading organizations. Prior to joining Imprivata, Mr. Gus was the President of Tripwire, a leading global provider of endpoint detection and response, security, and compliance solutions. In his career, he has built a strong track record of delivering growth and innovation for leading technology and security companies such as Tripwire, McAfee, and 3Com.

He combines extensive knowledge of global markets, including North America, Europe, and Asia, with strong technical expertise and a passion for customer success in the rapidly changing IT marketplace. Mr. Gus has extensive background and expertise in information security and compliance, networking, network systems management, CRM, and application design and development. He studied Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

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