Okta for Healthcare Providers
Okta has allowed us to provide a customer identity management system that forms the foundation of a personalized and rich experience for consumers. In addition, Okta let us scale that experience to millions of consumers.
Ranbir Samra
Leads data, architecture, and platform engineering for the Digital division
Benefits
- Modernize IT
- Adopt Zero Trust security
- Unlock the digital front door
- Automated provisioning into Epic Systems EHR
- Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances (EPCS)
Modernize IT
With cloud Single Sign-On (SSO), all of your users can access Microsoft Office 365, ServiceNow, Workday, and any other browser-based app with just one username, one password, and one session. Connected by the Okta Integration Network (OIN), with over 7,000 integrations.
And, extend SSO cloud-to-ground, authenticating users to on-prem apps too with Okta's Access Gateway (OAG).
Adopt Zero Trust security
The pandemic was an inflection point in both how and where we work. Not only are you juggling the rise of remote work and virtual care delivery, you need to minimize the attack surface from unrelenting hackers.
Zero Trust security can protect your organization by requiring verification for all users and applying the principle of least privilege. With a modern identity stack and a centralized control plane connecting all of your on-prem and cloud apps, administering and applying access policy or adding MFA has never been easier. And with the largest integration network in the industry, Okta helps connect your Zero Trust partner of choice across your CASB, EDR, or on-prem gateway quickly.
Read our latest version of The State of Zero Trust Security report
Unlock the digital front door
Patients feel friction when interacting with their healthcare provider digitally, often creating many usernames and passwords across their patient portal, scheduling, virtual care, and bill pay apps. Those unnecessary barriers keep patients from engaging in their health journey.
Imagine a single user profile, tied to one username and password, which conveniently supports SSO across all of your consumer apps.
Centralize your patient engagement strategy behind the Digital Front Door using modern authentication and authorization with Okta, plus provisioning patients into EHRs like Epic Systems and Cerner.
Automated provisioning into Epic Systems EHR
You’re continually on-boarding and off-boarding providers, medical and nursing students, employees, and partners. With malicious insider activity increasing data breach risk, your users, their roles, and access rights should follow in lock-step the moment a user joins the organization, moves to a new role, or leaves.
Eliminate costly and delayed manual provisioning into your electronic health record (EHR) by sourcing user data from upstream partners like Active Directory (AD) or your HR system Workday, assigning users to groups in Okta and automatically provisioning users into downstream systems, including EHRs like Epic Systems.
Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances (EPCS)
As of 2021, clinicians must use e‐prescribing when ordering controlled substances. A critical element of this flow is proving the clinician is who they say they are at the time of ordering—which you can do with multi-factor authentication. If your state doesn’t require support for EPCS yet, it will soon.
Learn more about security and compliance for e-prescriptions
Featured partnerships and integrations
Automate lifecycle management across your provider, employee, and patient users with BeyondID, including integrations into EHRs like Epic.
Tecnics and Credenti, a leading force in secure identity authentication, partnering to deliver advanced identity and access management solutions.
Get secure and simple access to patient data from any location.
Provision users into Epic EHR and MyChart Patient Portal, support EPCS requirements, and SSO into Epic CareLink provider portal.
Connect all of your users across Cerner solutions, including Clairvia staff scheduling, HealtheIntent population health, and HealtheLife patient portal applications.
Connect Okta for athenaNet SSO and EPCS MFA workflows with quick configuration.