It’s always nice when a product can align with industry trends. But our latest offering for customers and partners is actually the product of the confluence of two ongoing healthcare trends, which are inherently at odds:

On one hand, to succeed in population health, large integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, government facilities and community hospitals need control of their data, including the ability to minimize the risk of unauthorized access to patient data.

On the other, the ability to share data across the healthcare community is fundamental to the success of integrated, accountable care and improving population health. In this environment, health systems and hospitals need to quickly provide access to applications while ensuring compliance with data privacy and security requirements.

But until recently, building connectors into clinical applications often meant having thinly stretched IT staff write code or investing in expensive technical resources.

That’s the significance I see in Caradigm® Bridge Studio, which squarely addresses both requirements, providing a level of agility in identity management that healthcare organizations haven’t enjoyed before.

The availability of Bridge Studio marks the industry’s only point-and-click wizard for building identity management connectors into clinical and business applications. Part of our Identity and Access Management (IAM) suite of products, Bridge Studio works in conjunction with Caradigm Provisioning software, allowing our customers to build identity management connectors into their clinical and business applications without the need to write code or invest in technical resources. With this new capability, healthcare organizations can rapidly expand automated provisioning to a wider set of clinical and business applications – helping them meet the challenging objective of making the right patient data available at the right time to the right people.

To ensure that Bridge Studio meets real-world needs, it was developed based on input and technical previews by our IAM customers, including Saint Luke’s Health System of Kansas City.