Today Sandy Vance and Jason Barr, the vice president of healthcare for ID.me, talk about how ID.me is facilitating interoperability by creating digital identities for their consumers. Jason and ID.me are working to make the identity verification process much more streamlined to remove friction between patients and their health records.

Jason talks about the various types of verification, from legacy to digital. He defines what digital identity is and explains how ID.me is helping to solve the problems that come with authentication through different platforms and programs. It is important that patients keep their identities safe and ID.me is showing that it does not have to come at the expense of their time.

In this episode, they talk about:

• What is digital identity?
• The differences between physical and digital identity
• The problems with digital identity and verification
• How ID.me is solving the problem with single sign-on when many different platforms, programs, and systems are being used
• Examples of use cases for authentication in healthcare

A Little About Jason:

Jason is the VP of Healthcare at ID.me, the market-leading digital identity and credentials network. Jason leads the Healthcare team at ID.me, focused on working with Health Systems, EHRs, Pharma, Payers and others looking to make interoperability a reality for patients and providers. He graduated from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business with an MBA in strategy and finance.