The healthcare industry is rapidly adapting to new innovations. Information Technology is assisting in the delivery of improved healthcare services throughout the world. The increased usage of technology can be seen in every department and aspect of healthcare institutions. Moreover, just because of massive and continuous innovations in technology, patients are having better and improvised healthcare facilities, resulting in quick and less painful recovery with the assistance of the best diagnostic tools and cutting-edge treatments. During Covid-19 (pandemic), online healthcare facilities helped in consulting, treating, and saving millions of lives remotely. This was only possible with the help of digital communications channels!

Electronic Health Record is in fact one of the most important sections in Hospitals and Healthcare institutions. Electronic records not only include several important and sensitive data related to a patient’s medical history, diagnosis, and lab reports but also a detailed account of the patient’s personal identifiable information. The digitization of every little detail paves way for a more streamlined procedure by eliminating the need of recording it manually in dusty and heavy registers. It enables the doctors to take quick and informed decisions with the help of the records which sometimes even proves to be life-saving.

Keeping aside the numerous benefits, the digitization of sensitive records is highly prone to cyberattacks. Bad actors are lured to healthcare institutions as they keep records of highly valuable personal information of patients. The records stored are critical and sensitive since it’s a combination of the patient’s personal details (name, address proof, age, social security number) and their respective medical data history. Hospitals and Healthcare institutions are therefore highly vulnerable to data breaches worldwide. Digitizing records proves to be extremely beneficial in many aspects; however, it also gets easier for the bad guys to access the data as they keep finding ways to hack the computerized systems. The alarming concern about the data breach in the healthcare industry is that the percentage of cyberattacks has been on a rise since the last decade. For instance, there was a growth of 37.5% of cyberattacks in 2019 from 2018 which made the numbers worse, from 13,947,909 records in 2018 to 41,335,889 records in 2019. 

Various statistics and numbers themselves speak largely about the serious risks of data breaches in the healthcare industry. It is of the paramount need to find a solution to the long thriving threat of data security.

Just like Know Your Customer (KYC), there is Know Your Patient (KYP). The sole difference between the two is that, in the former, the businesses and financial institutions are required to verify their customers, whereas, in the latter, the healthcare institutions are required to verify their patients. “Know Your Patient” is given high importance in healthcare institutions across the globe as it is the only way to prevent and fight medical identity theft. As we all know, medical identity theft is when a criminal-minded person gains illegitimate access to some personal identifiable information of a patient and uses it to acquire medical treatment and insurances. 

In order to prevent such impersonation techniques available today, it becomes really important to verify each and every patient. The question is how can the healthcare providers achieve both, identification of patients with the secure handling of the personal information received.
 

At AZYO, we have successfully developed an outstanding automated ID verification solution with the help of a solid team of PhDs, Scientists, and Researchers.

More importantly, AZYO’s automated ID verification fits perfectly well for the healthcare industry as it proves to be a complete package. One can achieve both, ID verification plus the highest security levels of the personal information received. In fact, AZYO happens to be the only solution in the entire market that leverages so many cutting edge technologies like Blockchain, Real OCR, Live Video Recording, and Live Video Conferencing, Facial Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Liveness Detection.

AZYO’s certified internal compliance keeps personal data and sensitive information completely secured from the outside world. With multiple encryption layers and authentications, AZYO has taken enough measures to protect your critical data from destructive forces and from the unwanted action of unauthorized users, such as cyber-attack or data breaches. Our Blockchain technology is enough to address the challenge of data security and prevent malicious cyber-attacks. The level of security offered by a distributed ledger system offers benefits to establishing a secure data network.