Secure Access for Healthcare Providers and Patients
Healthcare providers face rising fraud, tightening regulations, and increasing pressure to improve digital access without compromising patient data security.
Entrust’s healthcare data security solutions help you meet these challenges with trusted identity verification, secure credential issuance (including ID badges), and cryptographic security that align with healthcare industry-level security.
Protect patient data
Support compliance mandates
Secure your infrastructure
Mitigate fraud exposure
Average savings by organizations that invest in identity verification.
Of organizations reported increased fraud attempts in 2024.
Source: The Future of Global Identity Verification Report, 2025
Over 175 zettabytes of data globally require protection.
Healthcare Data Security Challenges
Healthcare organizations face a growing attack surface – spanning EHR systems, connected medical devices, and cloud-based tools.
Ransomware and insider threats are escalating, with sensitive patient data as the primary target. Meanwhile, healthcare data security providers must walk a tightrope between protecting records and delivering frictionless access for patients and staff.
This environment can cause constant pressure to secure data without slowing down care.
Build Trust Across the Patient Journey
Onboarding a new patient remotely for telehealth services requires robust healthcare identity verification and data security to ensure everything is done correctly. Granting staff access to sensitive network locations or exchanging sensitive health records only after robust identification is the core of secure patient care.
Entrust provides healthcare organizations with the tools they need to verify identities, control access, and protect patient data – while ensuring seamless experiences and supporting compliance.
Key Benefits and Advantages
Enable Seamless Onboarding
Streamline digital and in-person registration with fast, accurate ID solutions for healthcare, including AI-powered biometric, document, and behavioral verification features.
Safeguard Patient Health Records
Protect sensitive health data with strong authentication, encryption, and digital signing. Streamline monitoring, industry reporting, and audit preparation.
Prevent Medical and Insurance Fraud
Detect and fight fraud such as deepfakes or synthetic identities, and create a paper trail with digital signature solutions, before it compromises your business.
Simplify Compliance
Support HIPAA, HITECH, GDPR, eIDAS, and more with healthcare data compliance solutions built for auditability, data protection, and identity assurance.
Enhance Workforce Safety
Give providers and administrators passwordless, role-based access to critical systems – improving security and efficiency.
Protect the Care Journey
Secure every interaction, from remote onboarding and telehealth access to ongoing care coordination and prescription signing.
Trusted Identity, Issuance, and Data Protection
Identity Verification
Verify patients and staff in real time with biometric, document, and signal-based checks driven by award-winning Entrust AI technology.
Credential Issuance
Issue secure physical staff ID credentials that enable reliable identity verification and controlled access to authorized facility areas.
Digital Signing
Protect PHI and critical workflows with certificate-based encryption, digital signatures, and secure document sealing.
Hardware Security Modules
Safeguard cryptographic keys and operations with FIPS-certified nShield HSMs – deployed on premises or in the cloud.
Cryptographic Security Platform
Enterprise-wide compliance policy definition, enforcement, management, and reporting across your cryptographic estate.
Workflow Studio
Use Workflow Studio to design and manage patient registration experiences. Build no-code, drag-and-drop verification workflows to automate the process, reduce friction, and delight your customers.
Powered by Award-Winning AI
Our award-winning AI technology delivers fully automated identity verification, completing most checks in under 10 seconds and improving fraud accuracy year-over-year.
One Platform for All Your Cryptographic Needs
The Entrust Cryptographic Security Platform helps healthcare organizations protect sensitive data, safeguard credentials, and enforce compliance at scale. With centralized visibility and control over keys, certificates, and secrets, you can prevent outages, minimize risk, and secure every digital interaction.
Protection Across the Healthcare Identity Lifecycle
Onboarding
Establish trust at first touch by confirming patient, member, and workforce identities during registration and intake – online, on-site, or via mobile – so access starts smoother and fraud risk stays lower.
Transacting
Enable secure access and digital interactions across portals, EHRs, and telehealth with authentication that adapts to risk, reduces account takeover, and keeps care teams moving with less friction across devices.
Monitoring
Maintain visibility and control across keys, certificates, and secrets that protect healthcare systems and devices. Automate lifecycle tasks to reduce outages, strengthen governance, and support compliance efforts.
Securing
Prepare cryptographic foundations for long-term threats, including quantum computing. Build crypto-agility and post-quantum readiness to help protect sensitive healthcare data from “harvest now, decrypt later.”
Healthcare Use Cases
Identity Verification
Verify identities quickly and accurately during intake – online, on-site, or via mobile – to streamline registration and improve access to care.
Card & ID Issuance
Provide secure physical credentials, including employee ID badges, to support trusted access across facilities, systems, and workflows while helping protect patients, staff, and assets.
Authentication
Ensure secure access to EHRs, portals, and telehealth tools with strong, adaptive authentication that fits care team workflows and helps reduce account takeover across devices and environments.
Key and Certificate Lifecycle Management
Manage keys, certificates, and secrets protecting healthcare systems and devices with greater visibility and automation to help reduce outages, support compliance, and strengthen operational resilience.
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Prepare sensitive healthcare data and digital trust systems for future quantum threats by enabling crypto-agility and post-quantum readiness across identities, systems, and encrypted information.
Document Signing and Sealing
Digitally sign and seal patient and healthcare provider records, contracts, prescriptions, and other critical documents to prevent fraud and forgery.
See the Precision of 600 DPI ID Card Printing
Explore the benefits of high-resolution, direct-to-card printing for healthcare employee badges with our self-guided demo of the Sigma DS3 with 600 dpi printer.
Behind the scenes technology platforms are enabling healthcare providers to achieve significant improvements in patient care, efficiency, and safety delivering care. The IDENTOS and Entrust security platform is a key part of our growing mobile strategy, enabling us to offer the convenience demanded by today’s mobile-savvy users and simultaneously further expand our admired culture of patient-centered care.
– Sumon Acharjee, CIO, North York General Hospital
Related Resources
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2025 Identity Fraud Report
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Healthcare Data Security Solution FAQs
What are healthcare data security solutions?
Healthcare data security solutions protect patient data records and clinical systems from unauthorized access, tampering, and theft. These solutions span identity verification, access controls, data encryption, key management, and secure communications. With cyber threats rising and regulations tightening, healthcare organizations rely on trusted security partners to safeguard operations, maintain patient trust, and meet compliance requirements.
What are the key components of healthcare data security solutions?
The most effective solutions combine strong identity and access controls, encryption and key management, secure device authentication, and policy-based access across systems. These tools work together to protect patient data wherever it lives – on-prem, in the cloud, or in motion. Healthcare data compliance solutions with monitoring and audit tools also help IT teams detect risks and pass audits without slowing operations.
What threats do healthcare data security solutions address?
They address a wide range of risks, including vulnerabilities in connected medical devices and third-party systems. As healthcare IT environments expand into the cloud and remote care, attackers target gaps in visibility and control. Data security solutions help reduce that risk with high-assurance protection from the core to the edge.
Why is data security crucial for healthcare organizations?
Healthcare organizations manage some of the most sensitive data in the world, from patient histories to financial records. A breach can damage patient trust and trigger steep regulatory penalties. Robust data security helps protect these assets while enabling secure digital transformation across remote access and cloud-based telehealth systems.
How do healthcare data security solutions help ensure compliance?
Modern healthcare data security solutions are designed with compliance in mind. They support HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR, and other mandates through encryption, access controls, audit-ready reporting, and secure identity management. By integrating these controls across environments, healthcare organizations can streamline audits, reduce manual effort, and support compliance without compromising speed or care quality.
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